On 20 May 2004 18:42:01 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > What should the directory permissions be on /var/lib/news/tmp? I have > 644 news.news, but I'm getting: > > touch: cannot touch `/var/lib/news/tmp/doex3273': Permission denied > chmod: cannot access `/var/lib/news/tmp/doex3273': Permission denied > /usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily: line 225: /var/lib/news/tmp/doex3273: Permission denied > > I fear I might have changed something inadvertently whilst setting up INN. With /var/lib/news/tmp being a directory, it needs mode 0755 so you can access it. 0644 is -x and not enough. You cannot even cd into it currently.
