Problem with inews

[Michael Stassen]

Thanks for the help.  I had already made inews setgid news; making pathtmp
group-writable for group news then did the trick.  I can live with that
for a while.

Thanks again.

Michael

On 20 Aug 2000, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Michael Stassen <stassenm at indiana.edu> writes:
> 
> > Yes.  As far as I can see, everything else works, just not inews.  And
> > inews does work if I run it as the news user.  
> 
> Well, that's downright bizarre.  I don't understand what's going on at
> all.  It indicates that CAlistopen(FromServer, ToServer, (char *)NULL) is
> failing after connecting to the server works fine....
> 
> Oh.  *sigh*  inews is trying to write to pathtmp.  Well, bleh.
> 
> Yeah, you have to either make inews setgid news or make pathtmp
> world-writeable.  Neither is a good choice.  The right fix is to fix inews
> so that it doesn't have to call CAlistopen at all, and I'll try to do that
> for 2.3.1.
> 
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>