lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) (08/22/87)
I have compiled the network news programs 2.11 on my UNIX pc with the shared library stuff and I am experiencing some weird uux errors. -------- >From root Sat Aug 22 15:14:35 1987 remote from icus remote execution [uucp job icusN688d (8/22-15:14:32)] rnews exited normally >From root Sat Aug 22 15:14:45 1987 remote from icus remote execution [uucp job icusN688e (8/22-15:14:42)] rnews exited with status 2 ===== stderr was ===== sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected -------- If there is more than one compressed batch waiting to be uuxqt'd then I get this strange error. The 1st batch works, and it trashes the rest. Please help!! Also how should I set it up so it knows about world, comp, unix-pc distributions, it keeps on saying 'world' unknown distribution, 'comp' etc... -Lenny -- Lenny Tropiano | UUCP: {mtune,uunet!swlabs}!godfre!quincy!\ ICUS Computer Group | ...{ihnp4,chinet}! \icus!lenny PO Box 1 | ...cmcl2!phri!gor!helm!quincy! / Islip Terrace, NY 11752|...{seismo,rutgers,cmcl2}!harvard!talcott!/ -- Lenny Tropiano | UUCP: {mtune,uunet!swlabs}!godfre!quincy!\ ICUS Computer Group | ...{ihnp4,chinet}! \icus!lenny PO Box 1 | ...cmcl2!phri!gor!helm!quincy! / Islip Terrace, NY 11752|...{seismo,rutgers,cmcl2}!harvard!talcott!/
kathy@wrcola.UUCP (K.M.Vincent) (08/23/87)
In article <15@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes: > >I have compiled the network news programs 2.11 on my UNIX pc with the >shared library stuff and I am experiencing some weird uux errors. > ... >If there is more than one compressed batch waiting to be uuxqt'd then >I get this strange error. The 1st batch works, and it trashes the rest. >Please help!! Ah, hello hello hello. How well I recognize THAT problem. I was having it myself. But only between my 3B2 at work and my UNIX pc, as far as I could ever tell. News between my UNIX pc and every other machine I talked to (including a VAX, a 3B2, and several UNIX pcs) seemed to be working fine. I tested things a bit further by sending some batches of news from the 3B2 to another friend's UNIX pc - same problem. But again, neither of us was having any problems (that we noticed, anyway) with news coming in from other machines. And my friend and I were running different versions of HDB and different kernels. I never did figure out what the problem was, and, like one of the problems I was having with my modem, it disappeared one day shortly after I installed a test HDB, and I no longer get those messages. All jobs between my 3B2 and my UNIX pc complete normally. Unfortunately, the only thing about that story that helps you - for the moment anyway - is knowing that you aren't alone ... >Also how should I set it up so it knows about world, comp, unix-pc >distributions, it keeps on saying 'world' unknown distribution, 'comp' >etc... Do you have a "distributions" file in your news LIBDIR? It's been a while since I compiled news, but I believe you set up disributions as part of setting up a config file. Kathy Vincent -----> AT&T: {ihnp4|mtune|burl}!wrcola!kathy -----> Home: {ihnp4|mtune|ptsfa|codas}!bakerst!kathy