Articles stuck in /var/spool/news/incoming

[Nigel Telles]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Nigel Telles wrote:

> Dec 19 14:46:09 metrohm rnews: cant remove 3fe1e6c5lyf57Z Permission 
> denied
> 
> I have not changed any Permissions and have checked permissions on 
> var/spool/news and where theses files are in /var/spool/news/incoming 
> perhaps missing the obvious but I do not understand the Permission 
> denied error.

Can you show us `ls -la /var/spool/news/incoming`?

Nigel: 

total 32
drwxr-xr-x    3 news     news         4096 Dec 18 17:41 ./
drwxr-xr-x   11 news     news         4096 Dec 19 16:44 ../
-rw-rw-r--    1 news     news          981 Dec 18 17:08 3fe1deffRUTO9s
-rw-rw-r--    1 news     news          982 Dec 18 17:35 3fe1e5786dxlhT
-rw-rw-r--    1 news     news          981 Dec 18 17:39 3fe1e63bPqkBZa
-rw-rw-r--    1 news     news         1397 Dec 18 17:39 3fe1e664UXAEB2
-rw-rw-r--    1 news     news          881 Dec 18 17:41 3fe1e6c5lyf57Z
drwxr-xr-x    2 news     news         4096 Feb 22  2003 bad/


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