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In article <4.B5C74@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> And we made a decision some
>> time ago that we are not especially interested in defending ourselves against
>> sysadmins who don't know what they're doing.  (We rate ignorance of basic
>> notions of file ownership and permissions as such.)
>
>And this is why people are reluctant to move to C news from B news.

Somehow I doubt this; B News didn't exactly hold your hand every step of
the way either.

>> Apart from being a nuisance, this assumes that there is a portable syntax
>> for chown, which there isn't.
>
>Huh? Where is there a UNIX system where "chown $NEWSMASTER $NEWSCTL/active"
>won't work? ...

Systems where chown is in some strange place, like /etc, that isn't in the
default search path.
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