Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!delluk!tim From: tim@dell.co.uk (Tim Wright) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: errors from news Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 09:26:06 GMT References: <1991Mar10.140425.3978@unixland.uucp> <1991Mar11.180612.29267@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: usenet@delluk.uucp (Usenet posting login) Organization: Dell Computer Corp., Bracknell, UK Lines: 20 In <1991Mar11.180612.29267@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1991Mar10.140425.3978@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes: ... >>And how about these: >> >>relaynews: can't link to `talk/politics/misc/7541' >Might be disk problems again. Definitely sounds ominous. OR... if you do manual newgroups, you're run addgroup as root, not news and now those spool directories are owned by root. I've done this by mistake before. Check ownership on said directories. Tim -- Tim Wright, Dell Computer Corp., Bracknell | Domain: tim@dell.co.uk Berkshire, UK, RG12 1RW. Tel: +44-344-860456 | Uucp: ...!ukc!delluk!tim Nobody ever said I was charming before. They said, "Rimmer, you're a total git" - Red Dwarf, "Camille".