Re: [leafnode-list] lock file permission

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>]

Christian Ebert schrieb am Sonntag, den 29. Dezember 2002:

> New to leafnode, and for a few weeks ungratefully
> unaware of it because it worked quietly and reliably in
> the background. But now:
> 
> $ sudo fetchnews
> mkstemp(/sw/var/run/fetchnews.lck.0000000362) failed: Permission denied
> Cannot obtain lock file, aborting.

The permissions of the parent directories may be wrong. Unaware of fink,
I can't say exactly what's going on. I presume that /sw/var/run is not
owned by the user "news" (or group writable and owned by the group "news").

> Mark: this might be a Mac or Fink problem, because I ran
> a Fink update yesterday, and apparently something went
> wrong with file permissions. I checked the leafnode
> files and everything seems to be as it should.
> 
> More diagnostics:
> 
> $ sudo inetd -d
> ADD : nntp proto=tcp, wait=0, user=news builtin=0 server=/usr/libexec/tcpd
> bind failed on nntp/tcp: Address already in use
> 
> Address in use? By whom?

Your already-running copy of inetd, nothing to worry about, because you
/can/ connect.

> $ telnet localhost 119
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.25.rel running at localhost (my fqdn: krille.blacktrash.org)

That's outdated though. 1.9.31.rel has just been released, you may want
to update. 1.9.31 should be a smoother compile on MacOS X than 1.9.25
was, and it fixes a lot of bugs 1.9.25 had.

Bcc'ing Christian Swinehart (Fink leafnode package maintainer);
Christian, please update the Fink leafnode package and use a
subdirectory for the lockfile, such as
/sw/var/run/leafnode/fetchnews.lck if Fink insists on /sw/var/run not
belonging to the user "news", to avoid this particular problem. Thanks.

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