INN users beware of ino_t change FreeBSD 11 to 12

Adam Weinberger adamw at adamw.org
Wed Dec 26 19:36:46 UTC 2018


On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 12:35 PM Christian Weisgerber
<naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:
>
> Adam Weinberger:
>
> > >   # echo '. /usr/local/news/lib/innshellvars && \
> > >         rm -f $OVERVIEWDIR/group.index && \
> > >         $NEWSBIN/makehistory -O -s `wc -l <$HISTORY`' | \
> > >         su -fm news -c '/bin/sh -s'
> >
> > Convoluted isn't a problem as long as people can c&p it! Will inn
> > users know what their $OVERVIEWDIR and $NEWSBIN are?
>
> That why we source /usr/local/news/lib/innshellvars which sets these
> variables!

Of course, that makes perfect sense! That UPDATING message looks
good to me.

# Adam


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