Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: cnews spooling trouble
Message-ID: <1494@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 14 May 91 03:40:07 GMT
References: <1991May12.162822.14342@xyzoom.info.com> <1991May12.234639.18084@xyzoom.info.com> <1991May13.161913.1812@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991May13.161913.1812@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.

Rob answered "yes" to the "can your machine do setuid(geteuid())".  ISC
386/IX cannot.  He has to set it to "no" and rebuild.
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