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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!news From: kachun@zippo.com (Kachun Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: News server config Date: 13 Sep 1996 17:30:59 GMT Organization: Zippo Lines: 26 Message-ID: <51c5oj$pcu@clark.zippo.com> References: <5138jb$3i7@nexus.amp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (beta 2) In article <5138jb$3i7@nexus.amp.com>, ian.jobson@amp.com says... > >Our news server is not adding the line count to the posting, does >anyone know how to configure it so that it does, the details of the >server are as follows: > > nntp version 1.15.12.1 > cnews cleanup release with patch CR.E > That took me a while to find the code at the time also. Look into your $(NEWSBIN)/inject/pnews: # output begins here # POLICY: don't generate Lines: because it is optional, munged in transit # by B News to make the count incorrect, and not pulling its weight. # If you just *have* to generate Lines: headers, uncomment line A and comment # out line(s) B. firstline="` sed 1q $inbody `" . $NEWSBIN/inject/lines # NB: reads $inbody # line A #case "$firstline" in # line B #'') cat $inhdrs $inbody ;; # emit the article # line B #*) echo | cat $inhdrs - $inbody ;; # insert blank line # line B #esac # line B