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

[Gene Collins]

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
>
>
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