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From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problems with NEWSGRP gr entry
Message-ID: <KARL.89Jun21141420@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 89 18:14:20 GMT
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In-reply-to: nickerso@bdofed.UUCP's message of 21 Jun 89 14:44:31 GMT

The slice of code which generates this message is (expire.c):

	if ((gp = getgrnam(NEWSGRP)) == NULL)
		xerror("Cannot get NEWSGRP gr entry");
	dgid = gid = gp->gr_gid;

The problem is that NEWSGRP, which is defined in the Makefile as
"news" by default, is a group name which is not found in your
/etc/group file.  You need to have this symbolic group name defined in
/etc/group so that this code will successfully acquire the numeric
value and can then execute under that ID.

--Karl