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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uop!pacbell.com!toad.com!news.tetherless.net!news.zeitgeist.net!Market.NET!news.roble.com!roble1.roble.com!marquis 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 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <41guth$t1o@alba.roble.com> References: <418d8i$ipv@alba.roble.com> <41dkhu$k8@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: roble.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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