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From: GAVRON@LAMPF.BITNET (Ehud Gavron@dac.lanl.gov, eg@lanl.gov, gavron@lampf)
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Subject: Accidental deletion of directories.
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Date: 14 Oct 89 05:39:00 GMT
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           Several times our feed to the outside world died.
        We use the CMU-TEK tcp/ip NNTP server.  What had happenned
        was that (mysteriously) the  [newsmgr.cmutcp_nntp] directory
        had totally vanished.  Since this is the directory the .IDS
        files are generated in, no postings could occur.
           It turns out that News while executing a SKIM command
        attempts to remove all empty directories -- including
        *managerial* directories, in an attempt to remove empty
        newsgroup space.
     
        Solution:  If it ignored the [news.news_dist],news_source,
        news_docs, news_build and news_manager directories that
        would be really neat.
     
        Workaround: Set all directory files to o:rwe,s:rwe.  That way,
        unless you give News BYPASS priv, it fails to delete the
        directory (error shows up in the log file, which is how I
        found out).
     
        -- forewarned  ==  "''f$trnlnm("forearmed")' "
     
        Ehud Gavron, sys mgr
        gavron@lampf.bitnet
        gavron@dac.lanl.gov     (mx record so cmu can't send to it)
        eg@lanl.gov             (a record.)