[news.software.b] Root owned files in /usr/spool/news

stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) (10/04/90)

I'm just now having a lot of difficulty with files in /usr/spool/news
being owned by root.  It seems to be the recently created newsgroups
that are the main source of the problem -- I just added the sub.,
dnet. and eunet. groups, and alt.desert-shield was just created,
and those are the ones with the problem.  My nntpd is running suid
root, as it apparently needs to be, and I just changed relaynews
to be suid news.  Is that what I need to do, or is there anything
else I need to do?  Thanks for your help.

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	Mike Pelletier - Usenet News Admin & Programmer
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 from here to there.  But they are the conditions for sailing -- not
 something to be gotten rid of, but something to be danced with."