dt@mathcs.emory.edu (Dave Taylor) (01/06/90)
I trying to get cnews and rn set up on a Xenix 386 2.3.2 system. I finally
got throught the "basic" cnews questions and have gotten everything to come
together. I think.
The problem is when I try to post news (right now the system has no news)
on a local group that I defined called "om.general", I get the following error.
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"/tmp/pn4080" 4 lines, 54 characters
Posting...
> relaynews: set[ug]id failed (Not a character device)
inews: article in /u/dt/dead.article
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Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong here??
One other favor?
Has anyone been archiving the discussion about Cnews? I was told before I
got this account that there was a lot of traffic about it. Would anyone
out there be so kind as to send me a backlog? Thanks.
David Taylorhenry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (01/06/90)
In article <4829@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> dt@emory.UUCP (Dave Taylor (guest)) writes: >> relaynews: set[ug]id failed (Not a character device) Either your kernel is broken in some obscure way -- possible -- or your "setnewsids" is not owned by root and setuid. Setnewsids is trying to set the uid and gid to those of news, and either the setuid()/setgid() calls are returning failure or they're returning success but not actually doing the job. The "Not a character device" part is noise, which the next patch should eliminate. -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu