?? No, I haven't changed anything at all. I'm quite sure the
problem is not on my side; I have no idea why you think it would
be. Immediately before getting this error message in response to
the uqwk command, I had uploaded a uqwk/Soup packet and unzipped
it as usual.
My ISP, as I noted, had just changed servers; what appears to
have happened is that uqwk can't access some file it needs to
post news to the new server; or, uqwk is still set up to post to
the old server, which is no longer available. It already has
everything it needs from my side to post what I had uploaded,
i.e., the unzipped uqwk/Soup packet.
I've never gotten this error message before, following precisely
the same procedure. As noted, the only thing that's changed is
that my ISP has switched news servers.
Right after the switch, I tried to get news and couldn't; I got
this error message:
Can't get the name of the news server from /usr/local/news/server
Either fix this file, or put NNTPSERVER in your environment.
I was lucky enough to be able to reach someone voice at the tech
support number, told him what had happened, and he fixed it. I
suspect the error message I'm getting now when I try to post news
is the posting counterpart of the one I just quoted.
> Does the /usr/local/bin/inews command really exist?
I don't think this is a command, I think it's a file. Whatever
it is, uqwk is looking for it but can't find it. Batch file?
Program file? The subdirectory for the news server? I have no
idea.
> If you can retrieve all newsgroups from yur ISP do it, and check if
> the group still exists (possibly another solution).
Since I'm still able to *get* news from the newsgroup I was
posting to, I would conclude it still exists.
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> If I am remembering correctly, uqwk can send news also directly to the
> NNTP server. Try this one, if the above doen't help.
I have no idea how to do this (or even what you mean!).
Thanks anyway...
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