ccc_simon@waikato.ac.nz (Simon Travaglia) (03/02/90)
Ok, so I turn SYSPRV on because I tour around the system fixing users
accounts up. I go into news and it turns SYSPRV off. In fact, by the
looks of it, it sets my privileges back to my login prics. So now when
I do a post, news uses my current directory as the scratch directory,
tries to write a file but can't BEACAUSE SOMEONE'S TURNED MY PRIV OFF,
so news crashes! Now I have to go through the whole lot again!
Then some sod phones me, so I spawn. He says XXX has happened, can
you fix it? No problems! I try, but because my privilege is turned
off in the base process, I can't set it in the spawned child process.
The first time, the above just slacked me off. Now, at about the 20th
time, I'm a tad more than that!
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A gleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet (sort of).mats@rigel.efd.lth.se (Mats Akerberg) (03/02/90)
In article <200.25ee3c8f@waikato.ac.nz>, ccc_simon@waikato.ac.nz (Simon Travaglia) writes: > >Ok, so I turn SYSPRV on because I tour around the system fixing users >accounts up. I go into news and it turns SYSPRV off. In fact, by the >looks of it, it sets my privileges back to my login prics. So now when >I do a post, news uses my current directory as the scratch directory, >tries to write a file but can't BEACAUSE SOMEONE'S TURNED MY PRIV OFF, >so news crashes! Now I have to go through the whole lot again! >Then some sod phones me, so I spawn. He says XXX has happened, can >you fix it? No problems! I try, but because my privilege is turned >off in the base process, I can't set it in the spawned child process. >The first time, the above just slacked me off. Now, at about the 20th >time, I'm a tad more than that! A quick workaround should be: Write a file call it fex NEWS.COM define the name NEWS to =="@sys$LOGIN:NEWS" Put the file News.com in SYS$LOGIN: $! News.com $ SET DEF SYS$LOGIN: $ DEFINE /USER SYS$INPUT 'F$TRNLNM("SYS$OUTPUT")' $ RUN ANU_NEWS $ exit This is just a workaround, you can hack the code in News to fix it to but.... Mats ____ Mats Akerberg (mats@efd.lth.se) on INTERNET System Manager (MATS@SELDC52) on Earn/Bitnet Lund Institute of Technology School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Postal address (real): Box 118 S-221 00 Lund Sweden Phone: + 46 46-109847 FAX: + 46 46-129948