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From: stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (arrakis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.151531.29862@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 90 15:15:31 GMT
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In article <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu>
	henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <4.B5C74@xds13.ferranti.com>
	peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>And this is why people are reluctant to move to C news from B news.
	...

>>> 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.

I quote from the "build" script in the cnews/conf directory:

------------------
echo
chown=`ask 'What is the full pathname of the chown command' ${chown-/etc/chown}`
echo "Can I say \`$chown $newsuid.$newsgid file' to change both the user id"
chboth=`yesno 'and group id of a file' ${chboth-yes}`
case "$chboth" in
no)     chgrp=`ask 'What is the full pathname of chgrp' ${chgrp-/etc/chgrp}`
        ;;
yes)   chgrp="/etc/chgrp"      ;;
esac
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