Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cnews spooling trouble
Message-ID: <1991May13.161913.1812@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 16:19:13 GMT
References: <1991May12.162822.14342@xyzoom.info.com> <1991May12.234639.18084@xyzoom.info.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May12.234639.18084@xyzoom.info.com> rob@xyzoom.info.com (Rob Lingelbach) writes:
>>  newsrun must be invoked by a uid which has write permission to
>>  /usr/lib/news .

Normally, however, this should be okay in this situation, because newsspool
(the guts of rnews) is running setuid-news and thus its children can write
on /usr/lib/news.  Further investigation is called for on why this did not
work.

>But I wonder how I could have news spooled immediately.  Currently I
>have cron su'ing to news and calling newsrun twice an hour; is there a
>way to have it turned on with "newsrunning on" command?

"newsrunning on" just sets permissions, so to speak; it does not arrange
for things to be run.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry