Re: uqwk difficulties (fwd)
From: Dennis McClain-Furmanski (dmcclain@runet.edu)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 19:51:03 -0500 (EST)
> 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.
>
>
> -- Ben C. O. Grimm - Libertatis Praesidium NL ---- BenGrimm@xs4all.nl
This is quite correct. My own ISP, EN.COM upgraded their server on Oct 30
and haven't gotten it fixed right yet. For weeks it gave segmentation
faults and dumped core. When they reinstalled it they got mail working but
not news. It can't find the active file to collect news and it can't find
inews to accept a return packet. And it *is* the newest version they
reinstalled. Just poorly.
The problem is they don;t know anything about it and the people who
originally installed it are long gone. I've asked for help for them on
the newsgroup, and I'll repeat it here -- anyone want to help out
ryan@en.com to get it fixed?
What I'd really like is a list of providers I could get a small shell
account with, who run a decent uqwk and carry a pretty good collection of
groups. There's not many uqwk providers left as far as I can tell.