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From: heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail3.1.19 map collection
Keywords: uucp maps
Message-ID: <53609@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 16:14:35 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Schaumburg, IL
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smitty@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM (Hibbard T. Smith JR) writes:

>pick up the new maps, and rebuild the mapping data base.  The mechanism says
>to insert an image in the news sys file as follows:
>	"maps:comp.mail.maps,world:F:/usr/spool/uumaps/work/batch"

>  Should this work? If so, can anyone point me to the light?  Since the
>  first field of the sys file entry is supposed to be a site name, should
>  I have set it to "me" or my site name? 
Yes, it should and does work, at least on my system.  The first field
needs to be a "dummy" site name to fool the news software into
thinking it's processing articles bound for batching to some other
system.  The problem you are probably running into is that when the
news is unbatched, and the /usr/spool/uumaps/work/batch file created,
the effective uid is that of the owner of your rnews, not "root".
This means that the /usr/spool/uumaps/work directory must be writable
by that same uid.  For me, the owner of rnews is "usenet".  I have the
work directory owned by "usenet" with mode 755.  I do map processing
as root, though with appropriate group permissions map processing
could be done by some other "user".
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com	Moderator: comp.newprod
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