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From: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.software.b
Subject: Re: addgroup won't alert users of new group
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.180851.28835@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 18:08:51 GMT
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In article <1990Nov9.004641.17111@ssd.kodak.com> dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) writes:
>I created a new group to be used just within my department using the
>command 'addgroup ispd.general y'.  The group was created properly, but
>no one is alerted to the fact that the group was created when they
>call up rn.  Whenever a new group is established on the net I am
>questioned whether or not I want to subscribe to it, why wasn't I 
>asked for the local group?

Don,
	I have had this happen as well when I forget to "su news" before
doing an addgroup.  If you addgroup as root, the resultant directory in
/usr/spool/news is not owned by news (or whatever username you set news
to run as).  If you change ispd and ispd/general to be owned by news
and touch the active file, users should be asked to subscribe to it.

-- 
Ron Nash
San Diego State University
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