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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Knews Reader Question - Why can I post as root only ?
Date: 30 Jan 1997 15:34:36 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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To: root@wue.ndip.eskimo.net (Charlie &)
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34349
Honorable Charlie &
wrote on 30 Jan (in article <E4sytA.54v@eskimo.com>):
=From a user account I created for myself, I cannot post any article.
=It tells me -- cannot create temporary file. Why ?
=
=Enoch Wu
Knews creates temporary files in /var/tmp . Check if the directory
is writable by you, and make it writeable if it's not. Or the partition
where /var/tmp resides may be over 90% full, which prevents non-roots
from writing to it. Check your diskspace with df(1) (first section of
the manual -- `man 1 df').
Would be nice if knews did a bit more of error reporting, by, at
least, using strerror(3) ... Ever tried to run knews with no DISPLAY
env-variable set?
-mi
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"Windows for dummies"