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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:17445 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:47 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:141 comp.unix.bsd.misc:61 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:264 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5675 comp.mail.uucp:14283 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!KremlSun!satisfy.kiae.su!carrier.kiev.ua!home.silit.crimea.ua!home.silit.crimea.ua!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3oe325$7i@home.silit.crimea.ua> References: <3o5ffl$gku@earth.superlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: home.silit.crimea.ua 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