Original message attached.

Please turn off your HTML message format, it makes it a
bit harder to work with.

Your problem could be caused because the index file is
not owned by GNATS_USER in 'mkdb' (gnats maintainers
please note).

Add the following line to the end of 'mkdb'

chown "${GNATS_USER}" "${dbdir}/gnats-adm/index"

For already created indices, you may want to change the
ownership manually.

Pankaj




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