Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:3370 news.software.b:6135 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b Subject: Re: A few questions about Cnews (latest version, setnewsids, etc.) Message-ID: Date: 7 Nov 90 08:56:29 GMT References: <1990Nov6.115415.3144@panix.uucp> <1990Nov6.204258.1833@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Followup-To: news.software.b Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 18 [ Redirected to news.software.b ] In news.sysadmin, article <1990Nov6.204258.1833@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Richard Michael Todd) writes: < < >3) When I first built Cnews for A/UX, I'm sure that I didn't need setnewsids < > (the setuid root file in /usr/lib/news). Then I fixed some things, changed < > a few others, and now I can't get Cnews to work without that file. Have I < > done something obviously stupid here? < Afraid so :-). A/UX needs setnewsids. Why? setnewsids is, according to notebook/ctlfiles, only needed when setuid(geteuid()) doesn't work. On A/UX 2.0, it does work. So whatever the problem is, that's not it. -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49+721+621127(0700-2330) \o)/ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com