rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe ) (08/01/85)
We haven't been able to get outgoing netnews articles accepted by a neighbor site of ours for a LONG time. This one is going out through a backbone site (ihnp4) which we don't like to use as a matter of habit because it takes so long to establish communications (because of heavy load there). But it's better than getting no articles out at all. I am entertaining suggestions and speculations from all readers of these newsgroups addressing the areas of what may be the problems we are encountering, what kind of tests can I conduct to positively diagnose the problem, and what can be done to solve the problem. Any help at all is appreciated. Firstly, we (riccb) are a VAX running UNIX 5.2 and netnews version B, 2.10.2 (dated 9/5/84). Our neighbor machine is a Bell Labs site which runs a slightly modified version of netnews called exptools. They (and about 100 other machines located nearby) all receive/transmit netnews articles from/to ihnp4, although NOT usually (if ever) via uucp. They have a separate, higher-speed communications network for that purpose. Our neighbor machine apparently has no problems exchanging netnews with ihnp4 and we have no problems receiving netnews from them. If you are reading this, then we have no problems sending netnews out through ihnp4. The only thing we cannot do (and we wish to) is get our neighbor to accept articles posted from here. We always get an error message mailed back to us from their uucp indicating "uuxqt cmd (rnews ) status (exit 1, signal 0)". This says to me that the uux we start up is in fact getting their uucico to start rnews, but it fails with an exit(1). I have examined the source for rnews in 2.10.2 and it looks to me that there are quite a few things that could go wrong. What I wish to know is how to go about pinning them down. It really doesn't look like a uux or uucp problem to me. We have no problems with mail at all. Either our articles aren't being set up right or something on the other machine is configured wrong for receiving net- news from anyone other than ihnp4. If this gets to ihnp4, that pretty much indicates the latter. What kind of things could be wrong? How do I test these theories and get the problem corrected? Thanks for all the help I can get. -- Roger Noe ihnp4!riccb!rjnoe Rockwell International