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J.C.Doran@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Farthing W. Fox) writes:

>Somewhere along the line in my re-setting up of my linux box, I guess I am
>missing something, for I cannot seem to manage to post news at all.
>I just get the error:

>newsspool: renouncing setuid due to nonstandard `NEWSPATH' in environment
>newsspool: unable to create temporary `/var/spool/news/in.coming/nspool.a01020' (Permission denied)
>/usr/lib/newsbin/inject/injnews: article in /home/fox/dead.article
>/usr/bin/inews failed

You either accidentally changed the values for the NEWSPATH variable
in /usr/lib/news/config (may be ../bin/config) or you installed the
broken version of the CNews distribution. Either get the sources to
compile CNews for your system or run "strings newsrun" to get a list
of the values compiled into the newsrun binary. The broken version does
have different settings here than the settings in the CNews config file.
These values (NEWSPATH,NEWSMASTER,NEWSBIN,NEWSLIB,NEWSSPOOL) must be
matching exactly .

Michael
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