error messages

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, John Chao wrote:

> I'm trying to run a newly installed innd2.3.2.  all directories and
> files under /opt/local/news are owned by user news and group news

Yeah, that'd be the problem.


> inndstart: [ID 910776 news.error] can't setgroups: Not owner
> inndstart: [ID 968305 news.error] seteuid(0) failed: Not owner

See http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#3.1

The `inncheck` program (in ~news/bin) will also be of use.

-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org