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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with expire - old files still around
Summary: expire should be suid news
Message-ID: <226@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 31 Jul 88 21:55:54 GMT
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Organization: One of the Eternal Champions - Richfield, MN, 554232523, USA
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I have had much the same problems on my machines -- also running 2.11.14, and
in rereading the documentation for news (which is something that is good to do
periodically for anything (:-)) i realized that expire should be suid news.  I
knew this, but i assumed that the install script would suid it for me after
reinstallation.  No, it appears not to.  So i went and manually suid to news
all the expires and it seems to be working a lot better!  Check your
permissions on expire and see if changing it helps any....

Good luck -- a cranky expire can *really* ruin one's week !!!

derek
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