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From: warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews: Who should own news articles?
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.055018.17554@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 91 05:50:18 GMT
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In article <1991Jun28.185657.5820@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> Peter Steele writes:

-->	I've just installed a new version of Cnews on our new news server
-->	and I've noticed that articles are owned by root. ...

  The last time I had this problem, I was using nntp and had it set to be
run as root (naughty).  When nntp ran relaynews and so on as root, everything
ended up being owned by root.  If you use nntp, make sure it's run as news.

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