Re: uqwk difficulties

From: Ben C. O. Grimm - Libertatis Praesidium NL - (BenGrimm@xs4all.nl)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 01:28:19 +0100

At 01:02 20-11-97 , Lemire David wrote:

>We've been using uqwk to create SOUP packets on my wife's ISP shell
>account for months. All of a sudden, uqwk has started generating a
>"Segmentation Fault (core dumped)" error if we try to gather USENET
>articles. If we run uqwk to only gather email and not news, it works
>fine. We've not changed anything about uqwk, and the support tech at
>the ISP tells me that nothing in their setup has changed that could
>account for this.

Your support tech is not telling the truth, to put it gently. I've
encountered these segmentation faults in the past, and they were always
caused by changes in the ISP's configuration. Ask them if they're running
UQWK 1.8. Older versions have a nasty bug. And ask them if they've renamed
or replaced certain directories in their news setup without recompiling or
reconfiguring UQWK.

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