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From: brian@neptune.AMD.COM (Brian McMinn)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: News Directory Problems
Message-ID: <474@neptune.AMD.COM>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 11:16:15 EST
Article-I.D.: neptune.474
Posted: Wed Oct 28 11:16:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 08:08:02 EST
Reply-To: brian@neptune.AMD.COM (Brian McMinn)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, Texas
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Why are new spool directories owned by root instead of news?

When a new news group is created, I run inews -C to create the entries
in the active and other files.  This apparently does not create the
directory in /usr/spool/news/whatever.  Everything works fine until an
article is posted from here into the new group.  If no articles for
that newsgroup have been received, then Pnews screams about a missing
spool directory.  If some articles have been received, then Pnews screams
about not being able to write into the directory.  Seems that the
directory was created by and is owned by root instead of news.

Our inews program is suid "news".  Any help would be appreciated.

	Brian
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	Brian McMinn		brian@neptune.AMD.COM
	Advanced Micro Devices
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