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From: munnari!sao.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: RE: One more bug? (V5.9C not deleting directories)
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Date: 26 Feb 90 14:27:54 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston <munnari!sao.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET>
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Posted-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 09:27:54 EST

>Just discovered this one:
>   On the nightly SKIM, News isn't deleting empty directories that don't have a
>newsgroup to support them (although they used to). The response is "Not Deleted
>- Directory not empty or protected" (approximately, don't remember exact text).
>   I did some further looking and discovered that the directory _is_ empty, but
>has standard protection (S:RWE,O:RWE,G:RWE,W:RWE) for directories. What's so
>special about these that News isn't deleting them? [And, please, no flames
>about "Well, there's no S:D access". That's the way that News is creating the
>directories; it should be smart enough to get rid of it properly, shouldn't it?
>After all, that's what automated processing is all about, right?]
     
Yes, this is a bug in 5.9C. I have fixed this for the next release
     
Geoff