Re: Can't post news

Jeff Harris (jharris@u.washington.edu)
Sun, 15 Sep 1996 17:16:57 -0700

In an article in list.yarn,
dated Sat, 14 Sep 1996 19:49:20 +0200,
rgriech@ibm.net (Hardy Griech) wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Sep 1996 12:28:15 -0400, jstein@cnct.com (Judy Stein) wrote:
>> Last night (Friday) my ISP (Incompetent Service Provider)
>> switched over from one news server to another. I can get news
>> from the new news server via uqwk from the shell, but I can't
>> post. I get the following error message:
>>
>> jstein@earth : uqwk -m -n +L -RREPLIES
>> uqwk: Posting article to alt.meditation.transcendental
>> sh: /usr/local/bin/inews: not found
>> uqwk: Posting article to alt.meditation.transcendental
>> sh: /usr/local/bin/inews: not found
>> Broken pipe
>
>To my eyes this does not look as a problem on the side of your ISP.

Actually, it is. UQWK sends its news to the inews program. The
path to that program is hardcoded in uqwk. In the installation
of the new news server, your ISP probably put it in another
directory -- just in case they had to go back to the old one.
However, they probably did not recompile uqwk to point the path
to the new inews program -- maybe they're not even using inews,
but another news poster.

In order to fix the problem, you'll either have to get your ISP
to fix uqwk, or you'll have to find the inews program and get
the source to uqwk and recompile it yourself.

If you find yourself doing the latter, let me know...my ISP
didn't even have uqwk available, so I had to do just that.
Then, *I* couldn't find the inews program either...they have it
in a different path here too. So, I've been there and done
that!

Good luck!

-- 
Jeff Harris <jharris@u.washington.edu>
Past-President, Aviculture Society Of Puget Sound (ASOPS)
Mentor, Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology (DOIT)
        University of Washington