[leafnode-list] Cannot update timestamp

[Matt Peperell]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:56:22PM +0100, ChaKy wrote:
> Dec  7 17:39:34 skynet leafnode[6630]: Cannot update timestamp on
> /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/netscape.mozilla.thunderbird: Operation
> not permitted
> Dec  7 17:39:34 skynet leafnode[6630]: Cannot update timestamp on
> /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/netscape.public.mozilla.announce:
> Operation not permitted
> Dec  7 17:39:34 skynet leafnode[6630]: Cannot update timestamp on
> /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news:
> Operation not permitted
>
> I have these kind of messages in my /var/log/news file when I access
> leafnode with my Thunderbird newsreader. What this means?
>


My guess is that leafnode is not able to record the fact you're interested
in those groups due to a permission error.  Please check that the directory
called ~news/interesting.groups is owned by the same user which the daemon
runs as.

E.g. on my system I use the inetd superserver to launch leafnode:

matt at murmur:~$ grep leafnode /etc/inetd.conf
nntp            stream  tcp     nowait  news    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/leafnode
matt at murmur:~$ ls -ld ~news/interesting.groups
drwxrwsr-x  2 news news 4096 2004-12-05 18:47 /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/
matt at murmur:~$

You could try something like
ls -l `which leafnode` or ls -l /usr/sbin/leafnode if you don't use a superserver.

Matt.

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Matt Peperell
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