Re: [leafnode-list] report on .rpm build of v2.0b8_ma7.6pre

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Volker Apelt <volker_apelt@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Sort of.  It was a combination of operator error (suid),
> SuSE being 'helpfull' in setting permissions (lockfile)
> for /var/lock when yast is run  and leafnode not saying
> loud why it failed (ln_log).
>
> In addition to the Suse documentation in /usr/share/..., 
> Suse has its lockfiles for news in  /var/spool/news/.
> They set /var/lock to  root.uucp   drwxrwxr-x   and have 
> a separate lockfile directory /var/spool/news/
> writable for news only.  Without a SuSE patch leafnode uses 
> the usual lock file in /var/spool/fetchnews.lck and failes.

Hum.

> By the way, is the "source server definition" still at the beginning of 
> the config.example instead of at the end?  That could bite newbies. 

No, the current config.example is fixed in this respect.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."         Benjamin Franklin

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