Hi. Sounds like your permissions and or ownership may be screwed on your /var/spool/news directory. Check them out with ls -dl /var/spool/news. Gene > >Um.... I've gotten this for the last two days, and verry un sure what this >means, or how to fix this, does anyone have any ideas on how to deal with >this? if so Iwould appreciate the help.... > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:25:01 -0500 >From: news <news at deedra> >To: newscrisis at deedra >Subject: news (urgent): possible expire problems > >touch: /var/spool/news/control/.overview: Permission denied >expovguts: can't open file "/var/spool/news/control/.overview" mode r (No such file or directory) >/usr/lib/news/nov/expov: expovguts failed in control > ...using fallback code >/usr/lib/news/nov/expov: /var/spool/news/control/.sov: Permission denied >join: /var/spool/news/control/.sov: No such file or directory >/usr/lib/news/nov/expov: /var/spool/news/control/.nov: Permission denied >mv: /var/spool/news/control/.nov: No such file or directory >touch: /var/spool/news/junk/.overview: Permission denied >expovguts: can't open file "/var/spool/news/junk/.overview" mode r (No such fi le or directory) >/usr/lib/news/nov/expov: expovguts failed in junk > ...using fallback code >/usr/lib/news/nov/expov: /var/spool/news/junk/.sov: Permission denied >join: /var/spool/news/junk/.sov: No such file or directory >/usr/lib/news/nov/expov: /var/spool/news/junk/.nov: Permission denied >mv: /var/spool/news/junk/.nov: No such file or directory >touch: /var/spool/news/news/announce/newusers/.overview: Permission denied >expovguts: can't open file "/var/spool/news/news/announce/newusers/.overview" mode r (No such file or directory) >/usr/lib/news/nov/expov: expovguts failed in news/announce/newusers > ...using fallback code >/usr/lib/news/nov/expov: /var/spool/news/news/announce/newusers/.sov: Permissi on denied >join: /var/spool/news/news/announce/newusers/.sov: No such file or directory >/usr/lib/news/nov/expov: /var/spool/news/news/announce/newusers/.nov: Permissi on denied >mv: /var/spool/news/news/announce/newusers/.nov: No such file or directory > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup