> > 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.
I wrote:
> > 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.
> 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.
That's exactly where the problem lies: incorrect pathnames to
the server's active file and to inews. These are parameters
that should be fed into the UQWK config.
> 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?
My provider (XS4ALL in The Netherlands) has had UQWK up and
running smoothly for over three years in a row, small glitches
aside. Ask 'ryan' to contact XS4ALL-techie cor@xs4all.nl (Cor
Bosman). I'm sure he or one of his fellow techies can (and
will) help.
> 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.
No, shell access is not a popular item nowadays. You may have
to resort to vsoup. I'm glad I have shell access and about
25,000 newsgroups at my fingertips, I'll tell you that.
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