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Article #302Re: Setting up Tin Newsreader
From: Mark Hannon
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 00:00
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In article <53gvtf$r7f@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu>, cdipierr@wam.umd.edu (Christopher M. DiPierro) writes: > Ok, here's a followup question about tin over NNTP in Linux. I can read > news just fine via my NNTP server, but when I try to post, I get a: > > 441 Posting failed > I have seen such a problem when nntp can't create a temporary file. At least on FreeBSD my nntpd was trying to write to /usr/tmp. Making a symlink from /var/tmp to /usr/tmp did the trick. /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD, Free Unix for your PC | mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
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