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From: laird@slum.MV.COM (Laird Heal)
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Subject: Re: Why does cnews tell me "relaynews: can't link to `comp/misc/28'"?
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.041737.707@slum.MV.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 90 04:17:37 GMT
References: <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org> <1990Sep12.034202.9368@groucho>
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In article <1990Sep12.034202.9368@groucho>,  smith@groucho writes:

>In article <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>>
>>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.
>                                    
Oh, relaynews goes into a loop making sure that either he or setnewsids
can su to news.  I run my cron unbatchers as su news.  I still get the
message.  I'll debug it sometime, the batches run pretty quickly when I
put them in for a second try.  I guess a few articles fall through the
cracks?

I had big problems setting the sticky bit and chowning things root,root!

By the way, my shell scripts are starting to resemble vague remnants of
their former selves...and while expiring stuff goes by in a comparative
flash (10 minutes on a very slow machine for a day of comp and news) it
takes relaynews just about forever:  is this normal, any clues?  I had
to use the supplied dbm...

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