Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Installing C news
Message-ID: <1989Jun20.223923.201@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3176@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 22:39:23 GMT

In article <3176@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
>The trouble that I'm having is that doit.bin fails because the 'bin' user
>doesn't have permissions to write into the .../conf subdirectory (chmod 755
>and owned by 'news').  Even if I add 'bin' to the 'news' group and change
>the permissions to 775, I still have some troubles with who-owns-what further
>on down the road.

If you want the source directories and program directories to be owned by
"news", you should just forget "bin" entirely and run doit.bin as "news".
Our documentation didn't go into this quite as well as it should have.
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