From: bryan@edgar.mn.org (Bryan Halvorson) Subject: Re: Problems with cnews/SLS 0.99.pl9-1 - Pnews ??? Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1993 18:48:41 GMT
In article <25tueq$1bq@panix.com>, Chris Taylor <cht@panix.com> wrote:
>
> When I use Pnews to post to an article for which I feel I have properly
> configured the system, I get 'relaynews: set[ug]id failed (bad file number)'.
>
> /usr/local/lib/news/bin/relay/relaynews is rwsrwsr-x, owner and group
> news (which I have added to /etc/passwd and /etc/group ).
I went thru the same thing last week when I was helping a friend with
his linux system. More than likely the permissions on setnewsids is
incorrect. Here's what it looks like on my system.
-rwsrwxr-x 1 root other 52147 Apr 15 1992 /usr/lib/news/setnewsids
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