From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4381 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gnus-bug@ifi.uio.no (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Parent of cache directory read-only Date: 13 Dec 1995 18:30:33 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145135 29389 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:18:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:18:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA17023 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 10:26:51 -0800 Original-Received: from gymir.ifi.uio.no (4867@gymir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.80.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 18:30:34 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by gymir.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 18:30:33 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Pekka Marjola's message of 13 Dec 1995 11:22:30 +0200 Original-Lines: 21 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4381 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4381 Pekka Marjola writes: > >> Signalling: (file-error "Opening directory" "permission denied" "/user") > >> directory-files("..") > >> gnus-cache-generate-active("..") > > Lars> Hm. Then you should set `gnus-use-cache' to nil, since gnus-cache > Lars> really does have to write to the cache directory to work now. > > Certainly I won't, since caching is so useful. Of course, the cache > directory (set to (expand-file-name "~/News/gnus-cache")) is readable > and writable, but /user is not readable. 0.18 had no such > problems... Sorry; I didn't notice that it was traversing up directories (".."), which is a bug. This problem should be gone in September 0.22. -- Your bug processing zombie for the evening has been Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen. If you want an explanation on what you have just read, please refer to .