On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 09:03:21AM -0300, Trevor Barrie wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > >> I use slrn --spool. I can't remember the details, but I know at first I >> had a lot of trouble to get it to work. If I remember correctly, I, as >> root, deleted the /var/news/ directory because of trouble getting the >> correct permissions. Thereafter the slrnpull created the directory with >> the correct permissions. > > Could you summarize what the correct permissions are? I'd rather not > have to redownload what I've got now if I can help it.
Here are the permissions in my working setup. I think I had problems with article storage permissions way back when. $ ls -l /var/spool/slrnpull/ drwxr-xr-x 2 news news 1024 Jul 4 11:56 data -rw------- 1 root news 1899351 Jul 4 11:56 log drwxr-xr-x 13 news news 1024 Apr 28 14:05 news drwxrwxrwx 3 news news 1024 Jun 20 11:05 out.going -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 1854 May 22 09:26 slrnpull.conf $ ls -l /var/spool/slrnpull/news/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 agora drwxr-xr-x 3 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 aol drwxr-xr-x 4 root pann 1024 May 22 07:50 linux drwxr-xr-x 3 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 nevada drwxr-xr-x 4 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 or drwxr-xr-x 4 news news 1024 Mar 22 08:55 orst drwxr-xr-x 3 root pann 1024 Apr 28 14:05 pdaxs drwxr-xr-x 4 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 pdx drwxr-xr-x 4 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 pnw drwxr-xr-x 3 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 portland drwxr-xr-x 3 root pann 1024 Mar 22 08:55 seattle $ ls -l /var/spool/slrnpull/news/pdx/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root pann 12288 Jul 4 11:55 forsale drwxr-xr-x 2 root pann 9216 Jul 4 06:58 singles I also had to put this umask line in my ip-up script to get things going, as I recall. . . . # last line umask 022 # begin: SLRNPULL_WITH_PPP (automatically added by slrnconfig) source /etc/slrnget.conf if [ "$USE_SLRNPULL" = "y" -a "$SLRNPULL_WITH_PPP" = "y" ] ; then slrnpull -h `cat /etc/news/server` >/dev/null; fi # end: SLRNPULL_WITH_PPP -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
