Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews problem posting articles
Message-ID: <1989Aug8.155716.3138@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1298@lad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 15:57:16 GMT

In article <1298@lad.UUCP> lad@lad.UUCP (lad) writes:
>... I was not able to run the doit.* scripts as bin
>and root due to permission problems.  So, after running all of the scripts
>as root everything seemd to install ok.  
>My first question is: are all of the permissions (owner, group) set right?

No.  If you weren't able to run doit.news as news -- can you explain why? --
then a whole bunch of control files and the like are owned by root, not by
news.  It was not a random whim that caused us to specify that those files
be run under those specific uids, or local equivalents thereof.

A lot of people on fouled-up systems have problems running things as bin,
which I can understand and sympathize with, and we've done some things to
make that situation easier.  But if you cannot run things as news, how on
Earth can you run a news system?

>Second question:  Whenever I try to psot news I get:
>nusdl {root} % relaynews: can't redirect standard stream to
>`/usr/lib/news/log' (Permission denied)

Try "chown news /usr/lib/news/*" or the equivalent to at least partially
fix up the fouled-up ownerships.
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