Re: New System Help Needed With Errors

Hi John.

It seems that you cannot write to your ask.log file. Can you provide a
listing of ~/.ask? Send us the output of "ls -lR ~/.ask".

Regards,
Paga

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:16:54PM -0500, John Graham wrote:
> This is the error I am getting ..  Can anyone know 
> 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >: Command died with status 100:
> "/usr/bin/ask.py-loglevel=5
> *	logfile=/home/john/.ask/ --home=/home/john". Command output:
> Attention:
> 		The system could not deliver your message due to a technical
> problem.
> 		Information about the problem has been recorded locally for
> analysis.  ---
>     Problem Details ---  Traceback (most recent call last):   File
>     "/usr/bin/ask.py", line 66, in ?     log    =
> asklog.AskLog(config.logfile)
>     File "/usr/bin/asklog.py", line 53, in __init__     self.logfh   =
> 	open(outfile, "a") IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory:
> '/home/john/.ask/'
> 
> 
> I do have a .ask dir that is 777 trying to find the problem it is the file
> .forward that the error is coming from here is my .forward file:
> 
> Here is the ASK-FATAL-ERROR log:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/ask.py", line 66, in ?
>     log    = asklog.AskLog(config.logfile)
>   File "/usr/bin/asklog.py", line 53, in __init__
>     self.logfh   = open(outfile, "a")
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/john/.ask/ask.log'
> 
> 
> The .forward file:
> 
> "|/usr/bin/ask.py --loglevel=5 --logfile=/home/john/.ask/ --home=/home/john"
> 
> 
> John Graham - Apex North America
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> 



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