Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problem with C-News Expire
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.180416.5500@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec3.180740.10115@progress.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 18:04:16 GMT

In article <1990Dec3.180740.10115@progress.com> erf@progress.COM (Eric Feigenson) writes:
>... Expire (called through doexpire) 
>seems to have trouble when it tries to link history to history.n, and gives a
>"disaster" error message...

Weird.  This is not likely to be a permission problem, since running doexpire
as "news" should eliminate any permission issues.  (Making expire setuid is
not necessary, in fact might not be a good idea, and setnewsids is not
relevant to expire.)  What does "ls -lg hist*" in the directory afterwards
show?  The evidence should be left around.
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