Permission denied writing article file -- throttling

[Russ Allbery]

Conrado De Biasi <debiasi at mandic.com.br> writes:

> Somebody know how can i resolve this problem...???

> news % telnet news.mydomain.com.br 119
> Trying 200.246.227.56...
> Connected to news.mydomain.com.br.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 400 Permission denied writing article file --
> throttling
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> news %

You've probably done something on the news server as root.  You don't ever
want to do that.  Make sure that all of the article spool is owned by the
news user and make any manual updates as that user.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>