rnews error: occasional "Permission denied" messages

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Aug 17 18:33:44 UTC 2001


Michael Coxe <mc at loudcloud.com> writes:

> I see these from time to time. I'm using mail2news to pipe 
> mailing-list messages to news for archival purposes. Almost all
> mail2news posts make it just fine, but several per week do not.

> What is the cause? Could this be a race condition? Does rnews 
> need special ownership/perms (like it would for uucp delivery)

> Aug 15 10:59:22 news rnews: [ID 107846 news.crit] cant open 
>    /usr/local/news/spool/incoming/.3b7ab87a9aa4QG Permission denied
> Aug 15 12:54:47 news rnews: [ID 107846 news.crit] cant open 
>    /usr/local/news/spool/incoming/.3b7ad3873NaWxL Permission denied

Hm.  I thought rnews was supposed to skip all files beginning with ".".
Anyway, those look like temporary files; are you sure that the posts
aren't managing to actually go through later?

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


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