I hope, we are talking the same language! You are trying to transmit
Soup packets to an NNTP server with uqwk which fails, right?
:
> 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.
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This indicates, that /usr/local/news/server does not exist! So
something must have been changed, if the message is new. Or is uqwk
capable of accessing the local directories of your provider (which
have been changed)?
:
> 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
:
Do you know how he fixed it? Did he tell you something like 'put set
nntpserver=bla.bla.bla into your config.sys/autoexec.bat'?
:
> > 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.
:
Ok...
:
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> <snip>
> > 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!).
:
Sorry, I was wrong! For news transmission uqwk needs the external
command (file) inews, if it is transmitting to an NNTP server. Dont't
know if it's a shell script or a binary. I suspect inews, which is
not at the correct place (perhaps inews feels offended by something,
but then you should get the message 'inews: i dont like blabla').
INews should be located at /usr/local/bin as the below message
indicates:
> > > uqwk: Posting article to alt.meditation.transcendental
> > > sh: /usr/local/bin/inews: not found
But as you stated before: you didn't change anything! Perhaps you
did, but you don't know you have (again: how did the operator fix your
problem?). My idea was, that you have changed a script or something
else in a way, that 'inews' is no longer an the currently selected
drive (BTW: which 'OS' are you using, how do you call uqwk
(options)?). Also you could start uqwk with the '-p' command line
option, to check if uqwk is thinking the same way you do.
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