Any clue as to what this is and how to fix it?news (urgent): possible expire problems (fwd)

[Steve Holmes]

It sounds like you got some kind of news server running.  Usually on a
daily basis, news administrators need to run regular expiry processes to
keep news spools current and all that.  If you aren't hosting news feeds
on your own machine, you should turn this off.  Wonder if a news admin
package got inadvertantly installed some how.

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Deedra Waters wrote:

>
> 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 file 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: Permission 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: Permission denied
> mv: /var/spool/news/news/announce/newusers/.nov: No such file or directory
>
>
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