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From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Another question 'bout .signature files
Message-ID: <5930@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 90 20:05:19 GMT
References: <5911@umd5.umd.edu> <12839@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <6650@sun.acs.udel.edu>
Reply-To: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
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Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <6650@sun.acs.udel.edu> weave@sun.acs.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:
>In article <12839@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) replies:
>>
>>	chmod 644 .signature should do the trick
>>
>Make sure your home directory is also readable, else inews can't even get
>to your .signature to read it...
> 
>	chmod 711 .
>(Thars a period there dudes...)
>
>Ken Weaverling - Systems Administrator |  Internet: 00499@vax1.acs.udel.edu
>Delaware Technical & Community College |  Voice:    +1 302 573 5460

Well, it worked before.  I did both chmod 644 .signature and chmod 711 .;
and I got the error again.  I did a listing of all my files, and my path and
the sig file are readable by all.  The exact error message, for what it's worth,
is:
inews: "/usr/users/fisrtaid/matthews/.signature" left off (must be readable by
"inews" owner)

The inews owner must be illiterate... I'll try one other thing (ignoring num-
bers and using switches instead) before I give up..

While I'm here, thanks to all who responded.  Some people's mail bounced back,
so here's the thank you.

Mike Matthews, matthews@umd5.umd.edu [this ain't the .sig file]