Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: uucp: PERMISSION (DENIED) - why?
Message-ID: <1990Sep3.232708.1904@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep2.004525.18064@pmsmam.uucp>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 90 23:27:08 GMT

In article <1990Sep2.004525.18064@pmsmam.uucp> wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) writes:
>Can anybody tell meh why I occasionally get a PERMISSION DENIED 'fault' on
>news batches fed to me?  It's not like I have a basic problem with news
>permission permissions (at least that I KNOW of :-) ) since I get a LOT
>of batches with no problem.

The usual cause of this is that you've *already* received that batch.
News and mail get sent in two pieces:  the data file, and the command
file that says what to do with the data file.  If the connection breaks
between the time the data file has been completely sent and the time
the command file has been sent and acknowledged, the other end will
later try again, starting with a repeated attempt to transfer the data
file.  Your machine will reject that because the file is already there,
but will accept the transfer of the command file, and all will be well.
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