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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>
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Subject: Re: Running news.expire - permission denied...
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:50:38PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> In my daily run output email, I get the following error message:
> 
> "Running news.expire: /etc/periodic/daily/330.news: /etc/news.expire:
> Permission denied"

/etc/news.expire needs to be an executable program/script.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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