lad@lad.UUCP (lad) (08/08/89)
I just finished installing Cnews on a Sun 3/160 running SunOS 4.0.3. The
install went well except I was not able to run the doit.* scripts as bin
and root due to permission problems. So, after running all of the scripts
as root everything seemd to install ok.
My first question is: are all of the permissions (owner, group) set right?
Second question: Whenever I try to psot news I get:
"/tmp/pn3820" 7 lines, 63 characters
Posting...
nusdl {root} % relaynews: can't redirect standard stream to
`/usr/lib/news/log' (Permission denied)
/bin/inews: article in //dead.article
Help!
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In article <1298@lad.UUCP> lad@lad.UUCP (lad) writes: >... I was not able to run the doit.* scripts as bin >and root due to permission problems. So, after running all of the scripts >as root everything seemd to install ok. >My first question is: are all of the permissions (owner, group) set right? No. If you weren't able to run doit.news as news -- can you explain why? -- then a whole bunch of control files and the like are owned by root, not by news. It was not a random whim that caused us to specify that those files be run under those specific uids, or local equivalents thereof. A lot of people on fouled-up systems have problems running things as bin, which I can understand and sympathize with, and we've done some things to make that situation easier. But if you cannot run things as news, how on Earth can you run a news system? >Second question: Whenever I try to psot news I get: >nusdl {root} % relaynews: can't redirect standard stream to >`/usr/lib/news/log' (Permission denied) Try "chown news /usr/lib/news/*" or the equivalent to at least partially fix up the fouled-up ownerships. -- 1961-1969: 8 years of Apollo. | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1969-1989: 20 years of nothing.| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu