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From: haug@almira.uucp (Brian R Haug)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.sysadmin,news.software.b,news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Re: Why does cnews tell me "relaynews: can't link to `comp/misc/28'"?
Summary: comp/misc/28 exists
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.005446.9244@almira.uucp>
Date: 19 Sep 90 00:54:46 GMT
References: <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org> <1990Sep12.190321.18474@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: haug@Columbia.NCR.COM (Brian Haug)
Organization: Personal machine, Columbia, SC
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In article <1990Sep12.190321.18474@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>>relaynews: can't link to `talk/politics/misc/10'
>
>Barring the possibility that your system is strange in some way, the most
>likely cause is permission problems of some kind.  It's an odd problem and
>it's hard to say much more from the information at hand.

Another possible problem which I believe I saw running very old Cnews was that
the active file had not been updated or had been corrupted.  The file
talk/politics/misc/10 probably exists, and is the name of the new directory
to be created.  If I recall properly, running the same batch through again
caused duplicate articles to be stored, this of course also created problems
for expire since, in this case, talk/politics/misc/10 may not be in the
history file.  Hope this helps.

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			      Brian Haug