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From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Problem with nntp/C-news/nfs interactions
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Date: 18 Jul 90 08:40:09 GMT
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In article <269C9E02.1535@ics.uci.edu>, nagel@esp.ics.uci.edu (Mark
Nagel) writes:
|> If you run it out of inetd, you can even avoid this step, however,
|> on some systems (a Sequent Symmetry, for example), you cannot use
|> the low disk space avoidance code unless nntpd is running as root,
|> since it needs to read the master block of the device.

A better solution is to have the disk devices readable by a group (e.g.
'operator') - this is the default setup on e.g. BSD and SunOS - and nntpd
setgid to this group.

--Per Hedeland
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