news@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (News Owner) (11/06/90)
We are running Cnews and nntp. I have set up cnews to automatically create new groups but when it does so the directory in /usr/spool/news... is alway owned by root and any articles placed in the directory are also owned by root. When these articles eventually expire 'expire' bitchs that it can't remove them (not surprising!). I then have to chown the directory and the files and all is well. I have checked the following things: nntp is running as news. newsrun is run as news. We had a problen with setnewsids ( it was owned by bin instead of root) but fixing that makes no difference. (I don't think that it is called, since we can do setuid(geteuid()).) Can anybody give any help on this? I have had a quick look at the cnews source trying to find out where the new groups are created but I could not find it. Thanks