2.10.3 news breaking Xref in rn

[Chris Grevstad]

We recently installed 2.10.3 news (version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd 1/17/86) and it
has subsequently broken the Xref feature of rn. I see where the problem lies.
The function ihwrite() no longer puts out a 'Relay-Version:' which rn depended
on for sanity checking of hostnames and the Xref line.

Four possible solutions:
1. have ihwrite() generate the Relay-Version: line as it used to. (This
is what I did).
2. have rn quit sanity checks.
3. have rn check Path: rather than Relay-Version: for comparison
purposes.
4. have rn use gethostname() or /usr/include/whoami for comparison
purposes.

If there is an official fix for this, I apologise for not being aware of it.
If not, is there a well-known fix? Or is what I did adequate and not going
to break something else?

Thanks for any responses.

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[jb...@epimass.uucp]

In article <2...@minnie.UUCP> ch...@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad) writes:
>We recently installed 2.10.3 news (version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd 1/17/86) and it

>has subsequently broken the Xref feature of rn...

>If there is an official fix for this, I apologise for not being aware of it.

The official fix is rn patch number 29. The lastest patch is #31.
See if any of your immediate neighbors can send you the patches.

I hope when 2.11 is officially released, that the net can adopt the
same patchlevel system that Larry Wall uses to keep rn up to date.
It works really well.

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