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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
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Date: 22 Aug 90 09:49:09 GMT
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In article <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Somehow I doubt this; B News didn't exactly hold your hand every step of
>the way either.

B news was not good - C news is different - you can't win :-(

>>> Apart from being a nuisance, this assumes that there is a portable syntax
>>> for chown, which there isn't.
>>Huh? Where is there a UNIX system where "chown $NEWSMASTER $NEWSCTL/active"
>>won't work? ...
>Systems where chown is in some strange place, like /etc, that isn't in the
>default search path.

What's wrong with something like:

PATH=/bin:/etc:/usr/whatever (chown $NEWSMASTER $NEWSCTL/active)

Cheers,
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