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From: mats@rigel.efd.lth.se (Mats Akerberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: :-| Is this a feature?  |-:
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Date: 2 Mar 90 13:46:57 GMT
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In article <200.25ee3c8f@waikato.ac.nz>, ccc_simon@waikato.ac.nz (Simon Travaglia) writes:
>
>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!

A quick workaround should be:
Write a file call it fex NEWS.COM define the name NEWS to =="@sys$LOGIN:NEWS"
Put the file News.com in SYS$LOGIN:
$! News.com
$ SET DEF SYS$LOGIN:
$ DEFINE /USER SYS$INPUT 'F$TRNLNM("SYS$OUTPUT")'
$ RUN ANU_NEWS
$ exit

This is just a workaround, you can hack the code in News to fix
it to but....

                        Mats
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