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what causes mixmaster -p FILE to hang?
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| Anonymous 2007-01-22, 1:11 pm |
| $ mixmaster -v -p foo.news
Mixmaster 3.0b2
then hangs and I have to ctrl-C it. top and ps in other xterm
show the process running but not doing anything (cpu).
File foo.news looks like valid text file in news message format to me,
with LF newlines, no NUL at the end, correcty headerrs, blank line
between headers and body.
Running mixmaster interactively works OK.
Any ideas?
thanks
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| Thomas J. Boschloo 2007-01-22, 1:11 pm |
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Anonymous wrote:
> $ mixmaster -v -p foo.news
> Mixmaster 3.0b2
>
> then hangs and I have to ctrl-C it. top and ps in other xterm
> show the process running but not doing anything (cpu).
>
> File foo.news looks like valid text file in news message format to me,
> with LF newlines, no NUL at the end, correcty headerrs, blank line
> between headers and body.
>
> Running mixmaster interactively works OK.
>
> Any ideas?
Try giving the receiver and the newsgroups on the command prompt.
Try ending your file with ^Z (wild guess)
Use fewer lines as headers
Make sure your headers are all smaller than 80 characters
Those are the sorts of things I would try myself.
To me it sounds like the program is waiting from something. Like input
from the keyboard or the internet.
Thomas
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| Deuxpi Admin 2007-01-22, 1:11 pm |
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> $ mixmaster -v -p foo.news
> Mixmaster 3.0b2
A few bugs have been fixed between version 3.0b2 and the current
3.0rc2. Is it possible for you to try the current version?
> then hangs and I have to ctrl-C it. top and ps in other xterm
> show the process running but not doing anything (cpu).
>
> File foo.news looks like valid text file in news message format to me,
> with LF newlines, no NUL at the end, correcty headerrs, blank line
> between headers and body.
>
> Running mixmaster interactively works OK.
My opinion is to blame the software  If you pass it something wrong,
it should not accept it (and hopefully warn you.) Have you tried other
options (mailing, dummy messages, newsgroup from -g, etc.) to see what
works and what doesn't? Can you create files that will cause the
problem to occur and others that won't? I am not currently able to
reproduce the bug on my side.
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:31:07 -0000, Anonymous wrote in
Message-Id: <4a5b26cfa0ea6710102718d975b30522@4096.net>:
> $ mixmaster -v -p foo.news
> Mixmaster 3.0b2
>
> then hangs and I have to ctrl-C it. top and ps in other xterm
> show the process running but not doing anything (cpu).
I can't reproduce your problem using 3.0rc1. If you're sure that
foo.news is correctly formatted then try upgrading. As a minimum,
foo.news would need:-
Subject: Something
Newsgroups: alt.test
<blank line>
Payload
If you don't have a Newsgroups header, you can specify it on the command
line using -g (--post-to=). Likewise, the Subject can be passed as -s
(--subject=). Using both -g and -s, you can pass just the payload in
foo.news.
As a sidenote: Avoid passing empty headers, such as References or
Subject. Whilst Mixmaster might allow it, many news servers will not.
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| Anonymous 2007-01-23, 1:12 pm |
| Anonymous <nobody@4096.net> wrote:
> $ mixmaster -v -p foo.news
> Mixmaster 3.0b2
>
> then hangs and I have to ctrl-C it. top and ps in other xterm
> show the process running but not doing anything (cpu).
>
> File foo.news looks like valid text file in news message format to me,
> with LF newlines, no NUL at the end, correcty headerrs, blank line
> between headers and body.
>
> Running mixmaster interactively works OK.
My filename really had @ in it (message ID), something like
123456789123456789@foo.com , and when I renamed it
123456789123456789_foo.com mixmaster -p worked.
Even with ' ' around filename with @, mixmaster did not like it!
Strange?!
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| Thomas J. Boschloo 2007-01-23, 1:12 pm |
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Anonymous wrote:
> Anonymous <nobody@4096.net> wrote:
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> My filename really had @ in it (message ID), something like
> 123456789123456789@foo.com , and when I renamed it
> 123456789123456789_foo.com mixmaster -p worked.
>
> Even with ' ' around filename with @, mixmaster did not like it!
>
> Strange?!
I smell a filthy smelly eel. Still working to make BADWORD messages hop
through other remailers? I can only hope the majority of remops make
sure all your pings go unanswered so you can't use their stats nor ping
them directly.
When you are done coding, will RAAA be back to abuse every remailer that
is not you?
You don't have to reply if your guilty,
Thomas
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| Anonymous 2007-01-24, 1:12 pm |
| "Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam@hccnet.nl> wrote:
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> Anonymous wrote:
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> I smell a filthy smelly eel. Still working to make BADWORD messages hop
> through other remailers? I can only hope the majority of remops make
> sure all your pings go unanswered so you can't use their stats nor ping
> them directly.
I know much better than to use eelbash!
$HOME/.Mix/starex.txt was a most useful addition to mixmaster!
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| Thomas J. Boschloo 2007-01-24, 1:12 pm |
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Anonymous wrote:
> "Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam@hccnet.nl> wrote:
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> I know much better than to use eelbash!
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> $HOME/.Mix/starex.txt was a most useful addition to mixmaster!
You use MessageID's as file names. Therefor you must be Eelbash! Why
would a remailer user or a remop use MessageID's as filenames? Give me
one good reason.
QED,
Thomas
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| On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:07:52 +0100, Thomas J. Boschloo wrote in
Message-Id: <45b7681f$0$2708$e4fe514c@dreader14.news.xs4all.nl>:
> You use MessageID's as file names. Therefor you must be Eelbash! Why
> would a remailer user or a remop use MessageID's as filenames? Give me
> one good reason.
Because when you save an article to a file, some newsreaders propose the
Message-ID as a default filename. It makes sense, the Message-ID is the
unique identifier for the message.
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| Deuxpi Admin 2007-01-24, 1:12 pm |
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> My filename really had @ in it (message ID), something like
> 123456789123456789@foo.com , and when I renamed it
> 123456789123456789_foo.com mixmaster -p worked.
>
> Even with ' ' around filename with @, mixmaster did not like it!
>
> Strange?!
This is by design. The argument you are passing is treated as a
recipient address. From the man page (sorry for the line wrapping):
NAME
mixmaster - anonymous remailer software
SYNOPSIS
mixmaster [-hpmdSvT] [-t user@host] [-g newsgroup]
[-s subject] [-a filename] [-l mix1,mix2,mix3,...] [-c num]
[user@host] [filename]
^^^^^^^^^^^
If you really need to use a filename with a @ character, try
redirecting the file content to the program input:
mixmaster -p < 123456789123456789@foo.com
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| Thomas J. Boschloo 2007-01-24, 1:12 pm |
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Zax wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:07:52 +0100, Thomas J. Boschloo wrote in
> Message-Id: <45b7681f$0$2708$e4fe514c@dreader14.news.xs4all.nl>:
>
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> Because when you save an article to a file, some newsreaders propose the
> Message-ID as a default filename. It makes sense, the Message-ID is the
> unique identifier for the message.
It also makes sense if Eelbash is storing messages it doesn't want to
send himself but hop through additional remailers.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt....c9e82a3d62c9f0f
But you are right. If newsreaders create filenames this way (I don't
know of any) Eelbash might have gotten off the hook this time.
Thomas
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| Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer 2007-01-24, 1:12 pm |
| "Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam@hccnet.nl> wrote:
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> Zax wrote:
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> It also makes sense if Eelbash is storing messages it doesn't want to
> send himself but hop through additional remailers.
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt....c9e82a3d62c9f0f
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> But you are right. If newsreaders create filenames this way (I don't
> know of any) Eelbash might have gotten off the hook this time.
not sure about any news*readers* but AFAIK all news servers do this.
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| Anonymous 2007-01-24, 1:12 pm |
| "Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam@hccnet.nl> wrote:
> You use MessageID's as file names. Therefor you must be Eelbash! Why
> would a remailer user or a remop use MessageID's as filenames? Give me
> one good reason.
Messages in newsspool are stored with message-ID's as
filenames.
I had copied some messages files from newsspool to
another directory to edit replies. Until I discovered
this problem I had no reason to rename files.
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| Anonymous 2007-01-24, 1:12 pm |
| Deuxpi Admin <deuxpi-admin@deuxpi.ca> wrote:
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> This is by design. The argument you are passing is treated as a
> recipient address. From the man page (sorry for the line wrapping):
Now I understand!
Thanks!
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| Anonymous 2007-01-24, 7:12 pm |
| In article <45b7681f$0$2708$e4fe514c@dreader14.news.xs4all.nl>
"Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam@hccnet.nl> wrote:
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> You use MessageID's as file names. Therefor you must be Eelbash! Why
> would a remailer user or a remop use MessageID's as filenames? Give me
> one good reason.
Because that's what a lot of mail clients use as their filenames when
saving or exporting a message.
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