[news.software.b] C News Error Message

mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell) (07/31/89)

What am I missing? When I execute 'postnews' I consistantly get the
error message 'relaynews: can't creat lock temporary .../TM...' for
a file in the news subdirectory.

Have I forgot to set some permisions properly?

Thank you.

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kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) (08/01/89)

In article <432@cocktrice.UUCP> mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell) writes:

> What am I missing? When I execute 'postnews' I consistantly get the
> error message 'relaynews: can't creat lock temporary .../TM...' for
> a file in the news subdirectory.
> 
> Have I forgot to set some permisions properly?
> 
> Thank you.

I had the same problem a while back. Try checking your NEWSBIN/bin/config
file to make sure that the environment variables there match the compiled
in values. If not, a call to unpriviledged() is made in relaynews.

			---Kayvan
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