mnowak@bushido (Michael A. Nowak) (10/23/90)
I recently added a new hard disk to my system. I partitioned it with Silver-
Lining and formatted it with newfs under A/UX. It is mounted under /local.
My news directory is stored there and I noticed that the newsdaily script
was failing when it tried to do a find in /local/news. I kept getting the
message: getwd: cat't open ..
Now it seems that only news can't do this find. My account can do it, as
can other users accounts, and of course, root. What could this mean?
Any help is appreciated, especially if sent via email.
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Michael Nowak
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mike%bushido.uucp@umich.edualexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) (10/24/90)
In article <1990Oct23.032357.4645@bushido.uucp> mnowak@bushido (Michael A. Nowak) writes: >I recently added a new hard disk to my system. I partitioned it with Silver- >Lining and formatted it with newfs under A/UX. It is mounted under /local. >My news directory is stored there and I noticed that the newsdaily script >was failing when it tried to do a find in /local/news. I kept getting the >message: getwd: cat't open .. > >Now it seems that only news can't do this find. My account can do it, as >can other users accounts, and of course, root. What could this mean? Yes, this had me going for a long time. There are two ways you can get this message. The obvious way is to try to use a volume mounted in a directory that you don't have appropriate permissions for. The second way is tricky: If you compiled stuff in A/UX 1.1, and it does things with directories, it will fail on FFS volumes in 2.0 whenever it hits a directory whose inum is greater the 64K. The easy solution is to recompile under 2.0. If that is not possible, you can sidestep the issue by making directories which have smaller inode numbers, and moving the news files to them. I believe (but I am by no means certain) that for rn, it is sufficient to do this for the personal "News" directories it creates in your home directory (actually "DOTDIR"), and for the directory containing the active file (usually /usr/lib/news). You might also need to do it to /usr/local/lib/rn, or wherever you keep files like Pnews.header. As for Bnews, I never made it totally happy under 2.0. I got it in working order, but it had a problem which required a bit of clever shell programming and a cron job to deal with. I would have tried to get it right but then I was fortunate enough to discover Cnews. I can't possibly say enough good things about Cnews. If you're not using it, I recommend that you do so. It's at _least_ thirty times faster than Bnews at the important stuff- unspooling news. It's also very easy to configure and bring up under A/UX. --- Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix {cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis
mnowak@bushido.uucp (Michael A. Nowak) (10/25/90)
In article <1990Oct23.032357.4645@bushido.uucp> mnowak@bushido (Michael A. Nowak) writes: >I recently added a new hard disk to my system. I partitioned it with Silver- >Lining and formatted it with newfs under A/UX. It is mounted under /local. >My news directory is stored there and I noticed that the newsdaily script >was failing when it tried to do a find in /local/news. I kept getting the >message: getwd: cat't open .. I want to thank the person who sent me mail suggesting that the link point was not properly permitted. It was set 750 instead of 755. -- Michael Nowak -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bushido Systems mike%bushido.uucp@umich.edu