From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 16:03:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA24090 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:03:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixer.visi.com (root@mixer.visi.com [204.73.178.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA24081 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:03:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from undquirt.visi.com (undquirt.visi.com [206.11.194.26]) by mixer.visi.com (8.8.4/8.7.5) with ESMTP id SAA13046 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:03:04 -0600 (CST) From: "Brent J. Nordquist" Posted-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:03:04 -0600 (CST) Received: (from bjn@localhost) by undquirt.visi.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id SAA00447; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:02:10 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199701220002.SAA00447@undquirt.visi.com> Subject: News binaries run as root, but not as news To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:02:09 -0600 (CST) Reply-to: bjn@visi.com (Brent J. Nordquist) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk PLEASE copy me on replies; I don't subscribe to -questions. My setup: Fresh cvsup to RELENG_2_2 (the up-and-coming 2.2-RELEASE) of /usr/src and /usr/ports; fresh build and install of /usr/ports/news/cnews; edited files in /usr/local/news/lib but no other explicit configuration. I was able to add a local group and do a postnews/readnews and see the article show up. BUT it only works if I run newsrun as root. If I run any of the commands as news (I tried three or so), they create a lock file and then hang. They don't respond to normal kill (I had to kill -9). I checked /usr/local/news; the entire hierarchy is owned by either bin or news. Again, I didn't do anything explicit other than make install in /usr/ports/news/cnews, and editing the config files. The work/README has lines that it says should go in news's crontab, but I had to put them in root's to make it work. Is this normal? Any ideas what might be wrong? Thanks! -- Brent J. Nordquist bjn@visi.com +1 612 827-2747