From: Tim Themann (tthemann@isys-hh.hanse.de)
Date: 03/30/93 

From: tthemann@isys-hh.hanse.de (Tim Themann)
Subject: Re: 0.99p7A: doexpire calling df says cannot read mounted fs ?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 18:10:35 GMT

michaelw@desaster.hanse.de (Michael Will) writes:

>Now calling
> /usr/local/lib/news/bin/expire/doexpire &
>as user news gave me:

>df: cannot read mounted filesystems: permission denied
>test: integer expression expected before -le
>df: cannot read mounted filesystems: permission denied
>test: integer expression expected before -gt

change /usr/local/lib/news/bin/spacefor, line 56 form
        df $arg | awk "BEGIN { nf = 4 ; nr = 2 }
to /usr/bin/df $arg | awk "BEGIN { nf = 4 ; nr = 2 }

>to mail me something (which failed because a mail.lock could not be created,
>but this will be solved with a newer mail I think.)

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Tim (tthemann@isys-hh.hanse.de)