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From: erf@progress.COM (Eric Feigenson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Problem with C-News Expire
Summary: Error trying to make history.n into history
Keywords: c-news expire history
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.180740.10115@progress.com>
Date: 3 Dec 90 18:07:40 GMT
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I'm running c-news on a BBC '386 running Intel Unix (System V).  We've 
patchdates applied through 25-May-1990.  Expire (called through doexpire) 
seems to have trouble when it tries to link history to history.n, and gives a
"disaster" error message.  Expire is setuid/setgid news, the history file and
the directory its in are owned by news,	 the setnewsids program is present
and is setuid root, and we run doexpire through cron with the command
"su news -c /usr/lib/news/expire/doexpire -v".

Any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks (in advance) for your help!

-EricF

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