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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: .signature file
Message-ID: <1989Jul28.223042.4488@twwells.com>
Date: 28 Jul 89 22:30:42 GMT
References: <2989@blake.acs.washington.edu>
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In article <2989@blake.acs.washington.edu> sgs@blake.acs.washington.edu (Steven Smith) writes:
: I'm having trouble getting my .signature file to work on public postings.
: I've got a file called .signature, spelled out in entirety, of course, in
: my root directory.  When I reply privately (email) to postings, rn "asks me"
: if I want to append the signature.  If I answer yes, it's appended, no problem.
: But when I post publicly (I get the message that the signature has been left
: off because it must be readable by the "inews owner." The protection ("mode")
: of the .signature file and my root directory are both set so that the world
: can read them.  What's going on?  Has anyone seen this problem before?

The only guess I have is that the path from the root to your home
directory is protected somehow. Assuming you are on a Unix system, do
an `ls -ld' of each prefix of your path and make sure that each
component of the path has *execute* permission. That's right,
execute. Read permission doesn't allow looking up file names, execute
does. The file itself has to have *read* permission. For other OS's,
I don't know.

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