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From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE INN/UUCP problem
Date: 25 Mar 1997 08:39:50 GMT
Organization: WEB Internet Services
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Olaf Matthaei <root@kwcom.in-berlin.de> schrieb im Beitrag
<5h6lq5$b7t@kwcom.in-berlin.de>...
> Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote:
> : Hi!
> 
> : I didn't notice this in the BETA/GAMMA, but on the
> : other hand, this has been lying around for all the
> : last releases, and I always fixed it and forgot to
> : report it ;-)
> 
> : After installing INN and setting up my UUCP feed
> : again, I got the following UUCP error:
> 
> : 	"rnews - can't execute".
> 
> : Apparently /usr/local/bin/rnews is
> 
> : 	r-sr-x--- news.uucp
> 
> 
> put "rnews" in /bin and set permissions to 4511, so it works fine on
> my system.

Yeah, and everyone can submit arbitrary news batches.

See my own analysis for a better solution _and_ the real fix.


Patrick