Problem with inews

[Russ Allbery]

Michael Stassen <stassenm at indiana.edu> writes:

> I've installed INN 2.2.3 on a Sun running Solaris 5.7 to serve a few
> local newsgroups (i.e. no external feed).  Everything seems fine, except
> that I can't post using inews (which I need for mailpost).  I get

>     Can't get list of newsgroups, Permission denied.

> if I run inews as anybody other than news.  I didn't have this problem
> on a similarly configured copy of INN 2.2.1.

What do you have NNTPSERVER set to, if anything?  And what does your
nnrp.access look like?

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