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Zenon Panoussis
oracle at xs4all.nl
Mon Feb 19 04:09:00 UTC 2001
"Jeffrey M. Vinocur" skrev:
>
> > 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?
That rids me of the /root/.bashrc problem, but INN still refuses
to start. First I get a weird behaviour that I don't understand:
# pwd
/usr/local/news/bin
# su - news -c ./rc.news
-bash: ./rc.news: No such file or directory
then I force it and get a somewhat decent reply:
# pwd
/usr/local/news/bin
# su - news -c /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news
Starting innd.
Scheduled start of /usr/local/news/bin/innwatch.
but still the syslog says:
PAM_unix[1026]: (system-auth) session opened for user news by root(uid=0)
inndstart: can't setgroups: Operation not permitted
inndstart: seteuid(0) failed: Operation not permitted
PAM_unix[1026]: (system-auth) session closed for user news
and innd is not running. All I get is one rc.news process, one
innwatch and one sleep process every time I try.
So, still in the news/bin directory, try
# strace -v -f -o strace.out2 'su - news -c /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news'
strace: su - news -c /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news: command not found
It's been something like six hours with this now and, I have to admit,
the thought of formatting the root partition has crossed my mind more
than once, even though if it wouldn't be any more intelligent than
smashing the monitor. Duh.
Z
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