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From: kec@csc.canberra.edu.au (Katarina Christenson)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: NNTP Saga Part II
Message-ID: <1990Sep3.063458.15922@csc.canberra.edu.au>
Date: 3 Sep 90 06:34:58 GMT
References: <1990Sep2.200145.13654@spock.UUCP>
Organization: University of Canberra
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In article <1990Sep2.200145.13654@spock.UUCP> lancelot@spock.UUCP (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
>       .....      The question at hand:  Why does the NNTP daemon refuse all
>POST commands with a
>"441 - cannot create temporary file."
>error?  He has created the user 'usenet' and made sure that /tmp is world - 
>writable.  What more need be done ?    ....

We had the same problem.  We solved it by creating a .tmp directory in the
news spool directory (normally /usr/spool/news). This directory must of course
be writable and owned by the user "news". It also seems that the POSTER as
defined in conf.h for nntp should be "news".
There may exist a more correct solution but this one certainly works.

Katarina