roy@sts.sts.UUCP (09/01/89)
I have a strange problem with the postnews(1) which comes with C-news.
Below is an attempt at posting an article in misc.test with it. As
you can see from some of the checks I did after the failure,
everything LOOKS ok. Is there something else I should be LOOKing at?
Thanks!
Script started on Thu Aug 31 19:41:13 1989
bash$ postnews
Newsgroup(s)? misc.test
Subject: Test
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edit article
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Posting...
bash$ relaynews: can't create lock temporary `/var/news/LOCKTMa05456' (Permission denied)
/bin/inews: article in /home/roy/dead.article
bash$ ls -l /usr/lib/newsbin/relay/relaynews
-rwsrwsr-x 1 notes 57344 Aug 31 10:59 /usr/lib/newsbin/relay/relaynews
bash$ ls -ld /var/news
drwxr-xr-x 4 notes 1536 Aug 31 19:38 /var/news
bash$
script done on Thu Aug 31 19:41:55 1989
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==================================================================henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (09/06/89)
In article <69000004@sts> roy@sts.sts.UUCP writes: >I have a strange problem with the postnews(1) which comes with C-news... >bash$ relaynews: can't create lock temporary `/var/news/LOCKTMa05456' (Permission denied) This one is common enough, and odd enough, that we probably ought to put it in the documentation. What this means is that either (a) relaynews is not setuid to the same uid that owns the $NEWSCTL directory, or (b) you have not run subst properly and various parts of C News disagree on where the directories are. (The single commonest cause of (b) is changing the "config" file without making corresponding changes elsewhere. When relaynews sees directory names in environment variables that differ from the ones it knows about (via the config stuff in the C code), it decides that something funny is going on and it had better renounce setuid privileges.) -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu