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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 1995 23:42:25 -0700
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
To:        adam@FreeBSD.org, pst@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cnews fails if user "news" doesn't exist
Message-ID:  <199504180642.XAA02768@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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Maybe it should use "id" to check it and call adduser?

Satoshi
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===>  installing for cnews
mkdir -p /usr/local/newsspool
ln -s /usr/local/newsspool /var/news
mkdir -p /usr/local/libexec/news /usr/local/lib/news
chown news.news /usr/local/newsspool /usr/local/lib/news
chown: news: illegal user name
*** Error code 1 (continuing)
`package' not remade because of errors.



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