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From: wswietse@svbs01.bs.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Why run nntpd as root?
Keywords: inetd.conf nntpd
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Date: 6 Nov 90 12:20:33 GMT
References: <108260@convex.convex.com>
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schnoebe@convex.com (Eric Schnoebelen) writes:

:What would break if [...] the inetd.conf line would look like:  :
:       nntp stream tcp nowait usenet /usr/etc/nntpd nntpd

We have been running the nntpd that way for years, without any ill effects.


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