Installations on different user/group

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Russ,

>> Who takes care of the creation of tradspool.map and related things?
>> Should it be during the installation?
>
> It's created on the first read-write instantiation of the storage API, I
> think.  I suspect that the problem is that nnprd initializes everything
> read-only and if you'd started innd first, it would have all worked.

It indeed works if I try to run innd (or rather rc.news) first.  Thanks!


>> * makedbz does not seem to work (it runs instantly -- whereas it takes
>>   almost ten seconds in news/news);
>
> Is this a fresh installation without anything in the history file?  The
> creation of the blank database should be fairly fast.

It is a fresh installation.  I do not know what happened yesterday; now,
it works instantly on my server.

However, I have a problem with BSD/OS, at the end of "make install":

../support/install-sh -c -o julien -g user -m 0664 -B .OLD newsgroups.minimal /usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/db/newsgroups
touch /usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/db/history
chown julien /usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/db/history
chgrp user /usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/db/history
chmod 0664 /usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/db/history
test -z "" && /usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/bin/makedbz -i -o
makedbz: must be run as user group
gmake[1]: *** [/usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/db/history] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/julien/inn/inn-CURRENT-20090130/site'
gmake: *** [install] Error 1


The first line shows that julien/user is the configured user/group.
makedbz is normally run as "user" group and I do not know why it complains.
(It works fine on Debian -- with julien/users.)

There is no final "s" in "user" in BSD/OS:

% ls -l /usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/db
total 2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 julien user 225 Jan 30 11:26 active
-rw-rw-r-- 1 julien user   0 Jan 30 13:26 active.times
-rw-rw-r-- 1 julien user   0 Jan 30 13:26 history
-rw-rw-r-- 1 julien user 333 Jan 30 11:26 newsgroups


Why is makedbz complaining?
It is run in the "user" group:  if I put "groups" in "make install", it answers
"user kmem".  (On my Debian, it answers "users adm".)


% ls -l  /usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/bin/makedbz
-r-xr-x--- 1 julien user 235875 Jan 30 11:25 /usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/bin/makedbz


void
ensure_news_grp(bool may_setgid)
{
    gid_t gid;

    get_news_uid_gid(false, &gid, true);
    if (may_setgid && geteuid() == 0) {
        setgid(gid);
    }
    if (getegid() != gid || getgid() != gid) {
        die ("must be run as %s group", innconf->runasgroup);
    }
}



-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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