innfeed[24566]: seteuid(0) failed: Operation not permitted

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Jun 27 17:21:40 UTC 2002


SAE's System Administrator <noc at sae.gr> writes:

> I keep getting such messages in my news.notice log file...

> Jun 27 13:52:13 filippos innfeed[24566]: seteuid(0) failed: Operation not permitted

> permissions in innfeed script are:
> -rwsr-xr--    1 root     news       254744 May  3 00:52 innfeed

innfeed should not be setuid.  startinnfeed should be.

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