Usenet gateway

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This hack has undergone many major changes since this thread was started. Consequently, most of the posts have become dated and of little use. To coincide with the latest major release (20010712), a new one has been started.

See this thread for the latest version and discussion

[chrispadfield]

ok, the good thing about the spam is they can't just decide to charge us, one of the things i like about it.

i may work on a template set then,

cheers for the hack have been looking forward so long to get it installed! my mods are sick of me talking about it

[chrispadfield]

possible bug

i started a new thread in a usenet forum, while newnews.pl was running (while it was collecting threads). Anyway, the thread now sites in usenet_outgoing and won't get sent even when i run newnews.pl again.

I'm sorry for being such a pain but even after fiddling around with replacement variables i can't get rid of the
<font size="1"> <i><font color="blue<br>">>
bit.
For the time being I had to do upside down gimnastics and create two replacements:
{usenetquotecolor} is replaced by #031AAB">
and
}">> is replaced by >
just to make it into valid html (but with <br> is still at the end of every single line, which makes all quotes twice as long). I simply can't find where is that <br> coming from. Any ideas?

[NgtCrwlr]

I looked and couldn't find anything wrong, and I the same as fastforward don't seem to have the problem.

This is a long shot... check your vB replacement set
and make certain you don't have a carriage return after blue.

It will not show on the CP listing
{usenetquotecolor} is replaced by blue [edit] [remove]
you need to go into edit and press delete several times at the end of the word blue.

I hope this makes sense?

Cheers!

That was one of the first things i've checked. All the articles look ok in database:

[size=1]{usenetindent}[i][color={usenetquotecolor}]> (here some text)

so I guess whatever adds the <br> tags is between db and showthread.php.
I also have no custom replacement variables except for the usenetquotecolor ones....

[zarkov]

fast forward,
I have spent some 4 hrs reading with interest all the posts today in this thread with amazement.

You realy unleashed a can of worms with this hack didnt you

I must praise you and the other members who have been with you on this from the start for your response times and dedication to resolving the problems.

Well done.

After reading all this i have a few questions i would like to aske before i install it on my m8s board to "Try".

1) Exactly which perl modules need to be installed for this script to run?
2) How can i find out which modules are already installed?
3) How do i find out what CRON is and if that is installed or usable or whatever it needs to be?

Sorry for the dumb Q's but im prety sure they havnt been asked/answered before and i know absolutly nothing about perl.

Thanks for the hard work and effort once again.

[fastforward]

Originally posted by Zarkov
1) Exactly which perl modules need to be installed for this script to run?

Bundle:BI - DBI-1.16.tar.gz (should already be installed)
Bundle:BD::mysql - part of the Msql-Mysql-modules package (should already be installed)
HTML::Entities - part of the HTML-Parser package (should already be installed)
MailTools - MailTools-1.15.tar.gz (should already be installed)
Net::NNTP & Net::SMTP - both part of the libnet package (probably already installed but older versions will not have the NNTP module)
MIME::WordDecoder - part of the MIME-tools package (MIME-tools is probably already installed but older versions do not have the WordDecoder module)
Date::Parse - part of the TimeDate package (maybe installed)
Text-Autoformat - Text-Autoformat-1.04.tar.gz (probably not installed)
Email-Find - Email-Find-0.03.tar.gz (probably not installed)
Email::Valid - Email-Valid-0.13.tar.gz (probably not installed)
URI::Find - URI-Find-0.04.tar.gz (probably not installed)

2) How can i find out which modules are already installed?

The easiest way is to run the script. It will tell you if it can't find a module.

3) How do i find out what CRON is and if that is installed or usable or whatever it needs to be?

Cron is installed along with operating system in every unix and linux flavour I have come across. Type: 'crontab -l' at the command prompt. As long as it doesn't give you a permission denied error, you are ok.

[NgtCrwlr]

Originally posted by Zarkov
2) How can i find out which modules are already installed?

I find the following script handy for the listing installed perl modules. I posted this a while back but for some reason the page that it is on is generating a vB parse error. So here it is again.

Download:
http://www.makeitsimple.com/download...=geninfo&did=6

Working example:
http://www.makeitsimple.com/cgi-bin/modules.cgi

I just do a find(Ctrl+F) on the page for whatever module is in question.

Cheers!

[zarkov]

wow thanks for the quick responses guys much appreciated

OK... I'm moving along with the usenet gateway and getting closer. (For those of you who are new to perl and hacking, this is not a hack for the light of heart!) The problem I had installing the perl modules is that I am hosted by a virtual host who does not technically support perl modules, some of which require superuser access. However, I was able to get around it a bit by installing the modules and perl in a directory off of my root directory. Typing in usr/bin/perl or whatever would not work because I don't have control to the absolute root of the server, only mine. Hope this helps and I'm back at it...