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Re: ownership & permissions of /var/spool/news/control/



On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:27:25AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
 
> I got a message of problems back from the news daemon as it tried to
> work with this directory.  It cant do anything with it, as it is 
> root:root and 755.  

FWIW, a (somewhat) recent install of inn2 on potato here resulted in:

(ls -l /var/spool)

drwxr-sr-x    9 news     news         4096 Jun 12 19:40 news

which seems to work fine.

> I assume this is wrong.  Did something weird happen to me, or should I 
> file a bug report?

Is this a brand new install of inn, or something that popped up after inn
had been running for awhile?



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Bob Bernstein
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