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From: dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121))
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.software.b
Subject: Re: addgroup won't alert users of new group
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Date: 10 Nov 90 22:53:25 GMT
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>>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?
>
<	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

I did su - news before executing the addgroup command.  The newsgroup
it formed was owned by news, with 775 as the permissions (same as
all the rest of the newsgroups).  The entry also appeared at the end of
the active file, and had the same format as all the other entries.

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