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From: marquis@roble.com (Roger Marquis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: EXPDIR? (was: News.daily error: Can't set owner/group)
Date: 24 Aug 1995 04:24:17 GMT
Organization: Roble Systems
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James Raynard (james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> wrote:
>>
>>	mv: /usr/local/news/lib/history.pag: set owner/group: Operation not
>>	permitted

>Obvious question: what are the permissions/ownerships of these files (and
>/usr/local/news/lib)?

Obvious by the error message ;-). That was the first thing I (re)
checked.  Everything's owned by news.news and writable.  Has the EXPDIR
variable been used by anyone successfully?

Roger Marquis