Basically, I have had trouble getting uqwk to work properly on Linux,
specifically a Slackware system recently upgraded to Red Hat (using
kernel rev. 2.0.30).
The problems have consisted of the following:
a) When it was initially compiled, it had severe problems with dealing with
small (under 1 megabyte) SOUP packet creation and would seg-fault.
(It did fine on creating large packets.)
b) Right about the time of some upgrades (including the upgrade to Red Hat)
uqwk began seg-faulting at the stage where it gets posts from newsgroups,
right after it gets the history file. (This is confirmed by strace, and
the strace logs are available upon request.)
Recompiling did not solve the problem.
The builds in question were the NNTP builds (I get news from Airnews) of
uqwk; the author of uqwk reports he has heard of several problems with
uqwk and Linux, and at one time had been mailed a solution (he has since
lost it, unfortunately).
If you or anyone on the pc-yarn mailinglist who has had experience in
building uqwk for Linux can help me out at all on this it'd be appreciated
as I am completely buggered at this point as to why it is not wanting to
behave properly.
Also, I've experienced similar probs with OSF1 v3.2 on a somewhat non-
standard Alpha system (a Gigabooster--seven Alphas in a row :)--one can
use one Alpha or all seven; it's meant as a budget parallel supercomputer).
If anyone's experienced problems with a regular Alpha and uqwk I'd like
dettatils on this so I can determine if it's something wonky with the Giga-
booster or not.
Thanks in advance...
Ken Gresham
kgresham@america.net
http://www.america.net/~kgresham