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From: igp@silit.crimea.ua (Igor G. Peymer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Need Help: setgid under BSDI OS 2.0
Date: 6 May 1995 00:50:13 +0400
Organization: Information Tehnology Research Laboratory
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jack@iris.superlink.net (Jack L) writes:
> Hi, 
> 
> I am  trying to get 'rnews' to work correctly under UUCP.  I am 
> currently using BSDI OS 2.0.  Whenever uuxqt calls rnews, the system logs 
> the following:
> 
> May 2 03:01:01 jupiter rnews: cant setgid to 8 Operation not permitted
	I don't know how in BSDI, but in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 I change 
owner to root and owner's right set to "r-s". After this manipulation
all work very nice.  How I read in the man pages
for the function setgid it work correctly (no return errors) only if it
called from root.
					Igor