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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: GNU version of su? Date: 4 Oct 1995 16:29:10 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 18 Message-ID: <44ucom$qog@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <44i0tb$sd7@xymox.dsw.com> <44i4jo$2gu@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <44i4jo$2gu@jraynard.demon.co.uk>, James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> wrote: > To start INN, the rc.news script that comes with it should be run by root > (this is in the INN documentation, BTW). In inn1.4unoff2, the method has changed and inndstart must be setuid root so either you do echo /usr/local/news/etc/rc.news | su news or get the -CURRENT su (or the patch) which re-enable su -c /usr/local/news/etc/rc.news [ Cc: to James ] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-