Re: [leafnode-list] newby fetchnews problem

[Ross Slade <rosco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karsten said: (your reply was reported by Pine to be malformed and it
wouldn't display)
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What are the owership (user *and* group) of /var/spool/news and subirectories?  
Fetchnews is *very* sensitive to file ownership, and unfortunately fails
silently if a conflict is found.  This is a very
common source of problems, and frustrated me for some time.
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Does this suggest anything to you?

drwxrwsr-x  18 root     root         4096 Apr 12 10:32 var/
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drwxrwsr-x  19 root     root         4096 May  1 14:15 spool/
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drwxrwsr-x   9 news     news         4096 May 12 09:45 news/
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drwxrwsr-x 2    news news 4096  May 11 12:21 failed.postings/ 
drwxrwsr-x 2    news news 4096  May 11 12:21 interesting.groups/ 
drwxrwsr-x 2    news news 4096  May 11 12:21 leaf.node/ 
drwxrwsr-x 1002 news news 12288 May 11 12:21 message.id/
drwsr-xr-x 2    news news 4096  May 11 12:21 out.going/ 
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and /etc/leafnode:
drwxr-xr-x   2 news     news         4096 May 11 19:46 leafnode/

and /etc/leafnode/config:
-rw-r-----   1 news     news         4509 May 11 20:16 config


Thank, Ross

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