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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Message-ID: <3ND5KOC@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 22 Aug 90 13:53:59 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.164651.26664@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu>
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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.

It did a better job than C news. Really. C news is a far superior product
once you get it installed, but it's a pain to install and there are all
sorts of administration gotchas. Yes, you should make sure that you don't
run as root, and make sure any changes to your scripts are copied out before
running the doit files, and so on... but it's a lot of stuff to remember
when you're doing news administration in your spare time. Some of us have
other duties. :-<

> >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 is this, more BSD fascist file system fallout? Geeze. It's one thing
to be incompatible, but gratuitously incompatible?

Of course, the "build" script does ask where chown is, so you do know the
strange place when you install the scripts...
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