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Re: [leafnode-list] can't get news articles!



Nicholas Pappas wrote:

> 	I just tried to grab all the news in a few groups and am unable to
> retrieve anything.
> 	I ran a 'fetchnews -vvv' and got a bunch of the following:
> 
> Cannot create directory /var/spool/news/message.id/911
> unable to create article/var/spool/news/message.id/911/<slqh6oupop397@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[...]

> 	Here are some quick dir listings:
> 
> /var/spool
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 news     news           10 Jun 30 20:10 news -> /home/news
> 
> /home/news
> drwxrwsr-x    7 news     news         4096 Jun 30 21:39 .
> drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Jun 30 20:09 ..
> -rw-rw-r--    1 news     news            0 Jun 30 20:20 active.read
> drwxrwsr-x    3 news     news         4096 Jun 30 21:14 alt
> drwxrwsr-x    2 news     news         4096 Jun 30 20:18 failed.postings
> drwxrwsr-x    2 news     news         4096 Jun 30 21:13 interesting.groups
> drwxr-sr-x    2 news     news         4096 Jun 30 21:42 leaf.node
> drwsr-xr-x    2 news     news         4096 Jun 30 20:18 out.going

Obviously the directory /var/spool/news/message.id (or /home/news/message.id)
is missing.

--Cornelius.

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