Date: Tue Apr 21 18:24:05 GMT 1998
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1. Correction to section 3.1 of the sysop manual: the WWW link to
the CLX home page is
http://www.lurpac.lancs.ac.uk/g0vgs/clx.html
and not
http://www.lurpac.lancs.ac.uk/g0gvs/clx.html
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2. For the new SHOW/SUN and SHOW/HEADING program, users must
set both LOCATION and QTH, otherwise the program will
complain, with message 1203. It is advised that you change
adv_txt message 1212 to say something like
"please enter ur location using SET/LOCATION and SET/QTH".
This will be fixed in a future release. Also remember to
remove the old `sun' binary in ~/exec/command/show as stated
in the upgrad description.
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3. A problem in rm_disp makes this program crash when someone
tries to send a mail message which is to be forwarded to another
node. It has to do with the length of message 752 in the English
version of adv_txt. The fix is to shorten this message to
something like
Message will be sent to %s via %s. Go ahead!
The crash never was observed at DB0BCC because there the
default lanuage is German and the German message was shorter
than the limit. The problem was reported by G0VGS, PE1NMB and
KJ5SF.
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4. Correction to section 3.1 of the sysop manual: The command to
subscribe to the CLX mailing list is "SUBSCRIBE" and not
"SUBSCRIBE CLX".
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5. SHOW/HEADING output is wrong when you are west of Greenwich and
try to find the bearing for a place from 270..360 degrees - like
Utah->Japan. No fix at the moment.
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6. If you are observing that CLX continously erases mail and
batch files at startup, you probably have duplicate entries in
the ml_dir table. This is due to an error in the mk_th script.
If you have this effect, use the command
$ psql clx_db -c "select d_name,d_flag,d_last,oid from ml_dir"
to check. Normally, you should see something like this:
d_name |d_flag|d_last | oid
--------+------+----------------------------+-------
batch | 0|Fri Apr 03 06:02:58 1998 GMT| 939680
info | 3| | 941600
bulletin| 0|Fri Mar 27 20:11:19 1998 GMT| 958624
mail | 1|Mon Apr 13 10:24:08 1998 GMT| 940992
iclb | 1|Mon Apr 13 15:19:11 1998 GMT| 940384
(5 rows)
If there are several instances of batch, mail, iclb or
bulletin, however, you have this problem.
d_name |d_flag|d_last | oid
--------+------+----------------------------+-------
batch | 0| |1870304
batch | 0|Fri Apr 03 06:02:58 1998 GMT| 939680
...
To fix, remove the versions with a higher oid, like this
$ psql clx_db -c "delete from ml_dir where oid=1870304"
mk_th has been fixed in the mean time but if you repair the
problem manually, there will be no more trouble.
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7. Sometimes you will find a message saying:
$ clx -u
CLX: /usr/local/clx/log/clx_stat exists, is CLX already active?
$
when you're starting up. This is due to a rat race condition
when clx was shut down. Remove the file and start again.
$ rm /usr/local/clx/log/clx_stat
$ clx -u
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