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Subject: News binaries run as root, but not as news
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PLEASE copy me on replies; I don't subscribe to -hackers.  I tried
to ask this in -questions and didn't get an answer.

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 newsrun as news, it creates a lock file and then hangs.
It doesn't respond to normal kill (I had to kill -9).  (I CAN do
addgroup and delgroup as news.)

I checked /usr/local/news; the entire hierarchy is owned by either
bin or news; all files and directories are writable by the owner.
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