Xref: utzoo news.admin:7229 news.software.b:3256 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc!ccadfa!usage!basser!ultima!hades!greyham From: greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Need HELP!!! with inews/postnews... news dirs. Message-ID: <461@hades.OZ> Date: 16 Oct 89 18:20:42 GMT References: <271@Taliesin.UUCP> Organization: Ausonics Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia Lines: 35 in article <271@Taliesin.UUCP>, Mark@Taliesin.UUCP (Mark Wickersham) says: : : In article <454@hades.OZ>, greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney) writes: :> I've recently landed the job of news administrator at our site, and NEED :> HELP with inews's weirdness!. For some reason, newsgroup directories are NOT :> being created when articles for new newsgroups arrive, or are posted from our :> site. : :> inews: Link into /usr/spool/news/comp/sw/components/1 failed (No such file or directory); check dir permissions. : : You should listen to your inews.. It's talking to you.. But it DOES have permissions to create the thing!. : Your file creation mask was probably set up so that when your system was made : you don't have rw all permission on /usr/spool/news.. and when you create : the directory (for example) /usr/spool/news/comp/sw/components by hand, : you continue to perpetuate the wrong permissions. You can kludge around this : if security isn't a problem by marking all news directories as rw, but : that isn't ideal (or even very workable). Ideally, when your news was set : up, user and group id's were established for administration of news. On : my system, the user and group are known (imaginatively enough) as news news. : All news spool and article directorys, as well as all history files should : have these as owner and group. That way, it all works.. inews is setuid, setgid to news news, as you suggest. /usr/spool/news/.... directories were rwxrwxr-x Therefore, inews DID have permission to create subdirectories there. I could su to news and create them.... but inews just refused to. This I can't understand. I've changed them all to rwxrwxrwx now; I didn't want to, and I want to change them back as soon as I can find out what is going wrong. -- /* Greyham Stoney: Australia: (02) 428 6476 * * greyham@hades.oz - Ausonics Pty Ltd, Lane Cove, Sydney, Oz. * * TDMP/IP: Telepathic Direct Marketing Personel Interface Protocol */