peter@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Peter Steele) (06/29/91)
I've just installed a new version of Cnews on our new news server and I've noticed that articles are owned by root. I've had expire report permission errors occassionally. Should news articles be owned by root or news? If news, then what did I do wrong during my installation that gives root as the owner rather than news? -- Peter Steele Postmaster peter.steele@acadiau.ca Tel: 902-542-2201 Software Analyst, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS Fax: 902-542-7224
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (06/29/91)
In article <1991Jun28.185657.5820@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> peter@aucs.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) writes: >I've just installed a new version of Cnews on our new news server >and I've noticed that articles are owned by root. I've had expire >report permission errors occassionally. Should news articles be >owned by root or news? If news, then what did I do wrong during >my installation that gives root as the owner rather than news? Articles should always be owned by news. Don't know what's going on. Who owns relaynews? -- Lightweight protocols? TCP/IP *is* | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology lightweight already; just look at OSI. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy) (06/29/91)
In article <1991Jun28.185657.5820@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> Peter Steele writes:
--> I've just installed a new version of Cnews on our new news server
--> and I've noticed that articles are owned by root. ...
The last time I had this problem, I was using nntp and had it set to be
run as root (naughty). When nntp ran relaynews and so on as root, everything
ended up being owned by root. If you use nntp, make sure it's run as news.
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KC6RCK IBM, You BM, We All BM for IBM!ryan@ra.cs.umb.edu (Daniel R. Guilderson) (06/30/91)
Along the same lines, I have found that sometimes some of the articles in the alt heirachy end up being owned by bin. This is really bizarre. Why alt? Why only some of the articles? My nntpd is running as bin. But all other cnews scripts are run as news from the news crontab file. I haven't really investigated this yet but maybe someone else has had a similar experience.