rnews error: occasional "Permission denied" messages

Sun Aug 19 22:06:42 UTC 2001

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:33:44AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Michael Coxe <mc at loudcloud.com> writes:

> > 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 ".".

rnews -U skips dotfiles, but if the filename is specified on the command
line, that doesn't apply.

I'd suspect that there is some sort of wrapper script involved here that is
grabbing the filenames and handing them to rnews, resulting in that
occasional error.  Skipping that step and instead just using rnews -U would
cure it, if so.