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[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Zenon Panoussis wrote:

> OK, this is driving me nuts. It probably has less to do with INN
> itself and more with something in the system configuration.

I'd agree.


> things and tried to start with su news -c ./rc.news . No go,
> the answer is
>   bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied

I suspect that it's not trying root's environment because of config files,
but rather because of actual environment inheritance.  Try

  su - news -c ./rc.news

and see if that helps?


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org