$ 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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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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> $ 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 <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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> Anonymous <nobody@4096.net> wrote:
> 
>
> 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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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>:
> 
>
> 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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"Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam@hccnet.nl> wrote:

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> Zax wrote: 
>
> It also makes sense if Eelbash is storing messages it doesn't want to
> send himself but hop through additional remailers.
> [url]http://groups.google.com/group/alt.privacy.anon-server/msg/6c9e82a3d62c9f0f[/url
]
>
> 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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"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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Deuxpi Admin <deuxpi-admin@deuxpi.ca> wrote:
 
>
> 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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