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

[matthew.malthouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On 14/11/2002 19:02:03 Nicolas wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Some days ago, I sent an email to this mailing-list about a problem I
had=
> with=20
>the lock file. You advised me to update to a recent version. That's what
=
>I=20
>did, and I now use this version: leafnode 1.9.27.
>When trying to fetch the news (/usr/local/sbin/fetchnews), I have the=20
>following error message:
>Cannot obtain lock file, aborting.
>
>That happens with both users root and news.
>I tried to chmod -R 755 /usr/lock/news but that changed nothing.

Are you certain that's where it should be?

Mine's at
    /leafnode/var/lock/news/
because I relocated leafnode on install.  Had I not done so it would (I
think) have been /var/lock/news/

Matthew



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