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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INN-1.5.1
Date: 26 Jan 1997 12:57:44 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <01bc0b27$9234dfa0$837ac4ce@butche.sheltonlink.com>,
Butch Evans <butche@sheltonbbs.com> wrote:
>OK...I got the compile done (WHEW!). Now for the last step.....The program
>compiles fine, but dies on the installation portion. It says
>"/usr/local/news Not found" , or something along those lines. I created
>the directory, and tried again, no luck. I then set the uid/gid to news.
>Still no luck. There is a "news" user, as I am currently running DNEWS.
>Could this be part of the problem? I am running the "make install" as
>root. Anyone have a clue. As you can all tell, I am no UNIX expert (but
>learning), and even less a programmer (trying hard, though). I am baffled.
It looks for /usr/local/news by default. What i did is created
/usr/local/news and then set it to be news's home directory.
I'm not familiar with DNEWS, though, so i can't tell if that helps or
hinders.
rone
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