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From: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News Error Message
Message-ID: <KAYVAN.89Jul31162125@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 31 Jul 89 23:21:30 GMT
References: <432@cocktrice.UUCP>
Sender: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Organization: Transact Software, Inc.
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In-reply-to: mdm@cocktrice.UUCP's message of 31 Jul 89 02:57:39 GMT

In article <432@cocktrice.UUCP> mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell) writes:

> What am I missing? When I execute 'postnews' I consistantly get the
> error message 'relaynews: can't creat lock temporary .../TM...' for
> a file in the news subdirectory.
> 
> Have I forgot to set some permisions properly?
> 
> Thank you.

I had the same problem a while back. Try checking your NEWSBIN/bin/config
file to make sure that the environment variables there match the compiled
in values. If not, a call to unpriviledged() is made in relaynews.

			---Kayvan
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