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From: ccc_simon@waikato.ac.nz (Simon Travaglia)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: :-| Is this a feature?  |-:
Message-ID: <200.25ee3c8f@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 1 Mar 90 21:23:43 GMT
Organization: University of Waikato Computer Centre
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Ok, so I turn SYSPRV on because I tour around the system fixing users
accounts up.  I go into news and it turns SYSPRV off.  In fact, by the
looks of it, it sets my privileges back to my login prics.  So now when
I do a post, news uses my current directory as the scratch directory,
tries to write a file but can't BEACAUSE SOMEONE'S TURNED MY PRIV OFF,
so news crashes!  Now I have to go through the whole lot again!
Then some sod phones me, so I spawn.  He says XXX has happened, can
you fix it?  No problems!  I try, but because my privilege is turned
off in the base process, I can't set it in the spawned child process.
The first time, the above just slacked me off.  Now, at about the 20th
time, I'm a tad more than that!

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A gleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet (sort of).