Can't start INND

[Russ Allbery]

divya <divya at avnika.com> writes:

> I am trying to install INND 2.4.1 on a RedHat Enterprise 3.0 system
> and getting the following error:

> [ root ]$ su news -c 'sh -x /export/usr1/news/inn-2.4.1/bin/rc.news start '

> Starting innd.
> + eval /export/usr1/news/inn-2.4.1/bin/inndstart
> ++ /export/usr1/news/inn-2.4.1/bin/inndstart
> inndstart: can't setgroups (is inndstart setuid root?): Operation not
> permitted
> inndstart: can't seteuid to 0: Operation not permitted

> [ root ]$ ls -l /export/usr1/news/inn-2.4.1/bin/inndstart
> -r-sr-x---    1 news     news        88497 Nov 24 12:19
> /export/usr1/news/inn-2.4.1/bin/inndstart

inndstart needs to be setuid root, not setuid news.

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