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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: Trouble writing to a file
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.204912.19880@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <FULL_GL.92Dec19060740@dolphin.pts.mot.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:49:12 GMT
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- In article <FULL_GL.92Dec19060740@dolphin.pts.mot.com> full_gl@pts.mot.com (Glen Fullmer X3296 Pager 7362) writes:
- >I put an alias in /etc/aliases like:
- >
- > rnews: "/usr/spool/news/incoming/xxx"
- >
- >and send mail to rnews and it responds with a error message
- >that it can not write to a file, permission denied. I change the
- >permissions of the file and all directories above it and still get the
- >message. I even change it to "/tmp/xxx" and I also try a .forward to
- >a file with the same results! Any ideas for a fix?
-
- rnews: "|cat >> /usr/spool/news/incoming/xxx"
-
- will probably work if run from '.forward', and the file xxx is owned by
- the user who is '.forward'ing. But what you really need is a mail
- processing delivery program such as 'deliver' or 'procmail'.
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-