Re: [leafnode-list] MacOS X fetchnews permission denied

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>]

Christian,

a critical packaging error in the Fink leafnode package has been
reported on the leafnode mailing list. I have an analysis and suggest
remedies below, please continue reading. Note that leafnode-1.9.36 fixes
some serious bugs in leafnode 1.9.33 and older, so please update the
package, too. Thanks in advance. Note you will not be able to reply to
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Yvon Thoraval wrote on 2003-03-13:

> i did install leafnode (1.9.33) thru fink on MacOS X.2.4 (latest) and i 
> get the following error, just after editing the config file
> 
> [nord-mon-ip:/sw/etc/leafnode] yvonthor% sudo -u news /sw/sbin/fetchnews
> Password:
> mkstemp(/sw/var/run/fetchnews.lck.yagHXTM820) failed: Permission denied
> Cannot obtain lock file, aborting.
> 
> i should mention /sw/var/run/ is empty and is ::
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  admin   68 Jan 18 18:59 run

Then the error message makes sense. fetchnews has dropped its root
privileges by the time it tries to create a lock file -- and it has no
permission to write the /sw/var/run directory (it's owned by root).

This is a packaging error, and also a case of incomplete documentation.
Please apologize. I'll change the default lockfile location to be within
$spooldir for 1.9.37 and newer.

> the only directory (as i've seen) being news.news is :
> 
> /sw/var/spool/news
> 
> all of is content being news.news

Hope that helps,
Matthias

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