suggestion

[Russ Allbery]

This was a *very* old report (nearly a year old now), but I just wanted to
let you know that we got it and I've committed fixes to various problems
you reported for INN 2.3.  Thanks!

Richard van Drimmelen <rdri at nki.nl> writes:

> If you do a "make install", various files are installed with "G news"
> and "O news".  Later if you try to "rc.news", errors like Operation not
> permitted, Permission denied occur.  Manually doing the chmd, chgrp will
> solve the problem (not mentioned in the INSTALL document).

That sounds like inndstart didn't get installed setuid root.  You should
have gotten a warning about that during make install; you need to do the
make install as root.

> Another thing about "inncheck -perms"

> /usr/local/news/db/history.index:0: missing
> /usr/local/news/db/history.hash:0: missing

These have been removed from the check for now, until inncheck is smart
enough to figure out what history type is in use.

> /usr/local/news/bin/tally.unwanted:0: missing

This program is no longer used.  Removed from inncheck.

> /usr/local/news/bin/control/docheckgroups:0: missing

No longer installed in the control directory.  inncheck updated.

> /usr/local/news/bin/rnews.libexec:0: ERROR: illegal file `gunbatch' in
> directory

Added to the list of rnews helper programs.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>