On Thu, 10 May 2001, Lisa Ungar wrote: > Even though the file is owned by news, I also see the following error > message. > > tradspool: DumpDB can't write /usr/local/news/spool/tradspool.map.new: > Permission denied What are the permissions on the directory /usr/local/news/spool/? -- Jeffrey M. Vinocur jeff at litech.org