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to: Alan Ianson
from: Michiel Broek
date: 2008-12-01 20:46:38
subject: Re: Display last callers

Hi Alan,

Alan Ianson wrote to Michiel Broek:
AI> Michiel Broek wrote to Alan Ianson:
AI> 
AI> MB> AI> It was a permissions problem. I just checked and
lastcall.data was
AI> MB> AI> ownded by aianson:bbs (my BBS user), so I changed it
to mbse:bbs 
AI> and
AI> MB> AI> now it seems to work OK.
AI> MB> 
AI> MB> I think it should be owned by the last user, but permissions should be
AI> MB> group read/write.
AI> 
AI> That's what it is. I'll netmail my lastcall.data, I hope you can
AI> see what's going on..

The latest tarball contains the fix, after upgrading my system, the same
happened here, so it was not a problem with your lastcall.data file.
It was a nasty one to find...


    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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