[news.software.nntp] Help! NNTP posting error

paul@ob1.uws.EDU.AU (Paul Hardaker) (02/13/91)

We have installed C-News on a sun SparcStation together with NNTP 1.5.9.
All seems OK. Now trying to install nn news reader on several clients to
read via NNTP. When posting is attempted, the NNTP server fails with a
441 error (posting failed). To illustrate - I Telnet to port 119 on the
server machine from one of the clients, and enter "post":

200 ob1 NNTP server version 1.5.9 (4 July 1990) ready at Wed Feb 13 11:50:47 199
1 (posting ok).
post
441 Cannot create temporary file.
441 ews:*:6:6::/usr/lib/newsspool:/bin/csh

quit
205 ob1 closing connection.  Goodbye.
Connection closed by foreign host.

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Questions:

1) How does the posted article get injected into the news stream? Is nntpd
invoking inews on the server?

2) Where is this "temporary file" trying to be created, by whom, and why
does it fail?


Any advice much appreciated,

Paul Hardaker
Network Administrator
University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury
RICHMOND  NSW  2753
Australia

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