Re: [leafnode-list] Cannot obtain lock file, aborting.

[Nicolas <oxstone@xxxxxxx>]

Le Jeudi 14 Novembre 2002 20:27, vous avez écrit :
> Nicolas <oxstone@xxxxxxx>:
> > That happens with both users root and news.
> > I tried to chmod -R 755 /usr/lock/news but that changed nothing.
>
> what a funny place to put a lockfile.  the configuration says the
> default location is /var/run/news/fetchnews.lock.  make sure where you
> made leafnode put its lockfile and that it has the right owner (news).

Ooops! You're right. Here's the path to that file on my system:
/var/lock/news

> also, leafnode drops priviledges.  what do you mean by "both users
> root and news"?

I mean news are fetched by the user "news". It's in its crontab. I tried to 
fetch news using the root user too, but that made no difference... =(

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