nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (12/22/90)
Hi. I need some help, 'cuz I looked at the source and I can't see what's going wrong. I keep getting error mailings from relaynews, telling me about error codes 16, and also 139. They both say that an explanation is deposited in errlog, but only code 16 gives me an error message: relaynews: can't link to `alt/folklore/urban/6799' relaynews: can't link to `comp/unix/internals/1589' Why in the world wouldn't it be able to link? Relaynews is running as 'news', and all the directories are owned by 'news', and have 664 permissions. The really weird part is that later invocations of relaynews *are* able to link to the file named in errlog. Code 139 is worse, because it doesn't tell me what's going on, and the process just dies without removing its lock. It's not a permissions problem on errlog, because I've got it set to 666 (just to be sure). I've looked at the bad batches, and I can't see anything special about them. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) FAX 315-268-7600 It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.