On 8/24/07, Luca Falavigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Your fix olny works if you run it as root.
> Does newsx need to be run as root?
It has to be run only by the unprivileged user "news". And yes, for
this reason the workaround I've proposed is ineffective.
After a more accurate investigation,
On 8/22/07, Luca Falavigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was referring to the command used to start newsx.
/usr/lib/news/bin/newsx
It's a bash script whose job is to perform some checks on installed
newsserver and then call the real newsx executable
(/usr/lib/news/bin/newsx.real) with the right
On 8/21/07, Luca Falavigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report.
> This bug could be fixed using an init script. Could you please indicate which
> command should be executed?
if [ ! -d /var/run/newsx ]; then
mkdir -p /var/run/newsx
chown news:news /var/run/newsx
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: newsx
In order to properly work, newsx needs the presence of directory
/var/run/newsx with news.news ownership. Since /var/run is a tmpfs, it
should be created at each startup by init scripts, but the newsx
packaged in Ubuntu 6.10 actually doesn't do it.
