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From: smith@groucho
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Subject: Re: Why does cnews tell me "relaynews: can't link to `comp/misc/28'"?
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.034202.9368@groucho>
Date: 12 Sep 90 03:42:02 GMT
References: <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org>
Reply-To: wsmith@wallaby.mrc.uidaho.edu (William D. Smith)
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In article <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>links.  Obviously, one particular link that should have been made wasn't,
>but why?  This is what showed up in /usr/lib/news/err* for 3 consecutive
>nights.  Is this caused by something in the incoming articles?
>
>relaynews: can't link to `comp/lang/perl/5'
>relaynews: can't link to `comp/periphs/2'
>

  etc...

  Check the permissions on your news files. Make sure they are owned by 
  news (or whatever serves that function on your machine). Also check
  control/setnewsids and be sure that it is set uid root.
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