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From: akf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jay Hinkelman)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Signatures
Message-ID: <7911@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 12:59:53 GMT
References: <2095@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
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In article <2095@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> dmcgrego@cs.strath.ac.uk (D. James McGregor) writes:
>OK, this has been annoying me for ages now.  I have constructed a nice
>.signature file with read, write and (for good measure) execute access.
>My root directory is readable by the entire world, and STILL THE STUPID
>.inews FILE REFUSES TO ADMIT THAT IT CAN READ IT!!!

You need to set your .signature file to be world readable and your
root directory to be world EXECUTABLE and readable.  You do NOT need
to make your .signature world writable or executable, and in fact
should change that REAL fast before someone fiddles with it.

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				 Jay Hinkelman, akf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
"Catch ya later, Bill and Ted!"	     -- Bill and Ted