[news.sysadmin] A few questions about Cnews

urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) (11/07/90)

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In news.sysadmin, article <1990Nov6.204258.1833@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>,
  rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Richard Michael Todd) writes:
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< >3) When I first built Cnews for A/UX, I'm sure that I didn't need setnewsids
< >   (the setuid root file in /usr/lib/news). Then I fixed some things, changed
< >   a few others, and now I can't get Cnews to work without that file. Have I
< >   done something obviously stupid here?
<   Afraid so :-).  A/UX needs setnewsids.  

Why? setnewsids is, according to notebook/ctlfiles, only needed when
setuid(geteuid()) doesn't work. On A/UX 2.0, it does work.
So whatever the problem is, that's not it.

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