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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: bnews & expire
Message-ID: <1211@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 24 Jan 91 18:48:50 GMT
References: <371@afc-tci.UUCP>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <371@afc-tci.UUCP> joubert@afc-tci.UUCP (Joubert Berger) writes:
>This is a question concerning bnews's expire.  I get a message:
>   Can't lock /usr/spool/news/.rnews:  Bad file number
>
>Can someone help me with this one.  I looked at the code but was not
>quit sure what it was supposed to do.  

Make sure that there is a directory /usr/spool/news/.rnews with
appropriate ownership (probably news) and permissions.  The same
ownership and permissions as /usr/spool/news would suffice.
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