Path: utzoo!utgpu!radio!ziebmef!cks
From: cks@ziebmef.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Dir Permissions
Keywords: Usenet Trouble
Message-ID: <377@ziebmef.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 20:02:55 GMT
References: <113@3bee2.UUCP>
Reply-To: cks@ziebmef.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access BBS/Unix
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In article <113@3bee2.UUCP> lyman@3bee2.UUCP (William S. Lyman Jr.) writes:
>  I am running the News software for Usenet and when it goes to create
>a directory for the new group it is not what I defined it for in local-
>ize.sh it is making them Owner root Grp root. 

 Make sure inews is setuid news, setgid news. That's what I run here
(on a 3B1/7300), and I'm having no trouble with it. It is definetly
not (as someone has already suggested) that your system is polling
people not under the news uid; my system works just fine with uucp
jobs running under the uucpadm UID. Also make sure that your inews is
creating new directories mode 777 and that /usr/spool/news is also
mode 777 (see the comments in the news installation documentation for 
why this is necessary). 

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