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- From: bob@dalek.mwc.com (Bob Hemedinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: vn won't save files
- Message-ID: <9211190745.AA00783@dalek.mwc.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:45:34 GMT
- References: <9211190147.AA09741@relay1.UU.NET>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- >
- > I just installed the installable news package, and I'm testing it
- > out. Tass seems to work just fine, but vn refuses to save anything.
- >
- > It gives me an error saying that it cannot save the files, and I can't
- > figure out why. permissions on both tass and vn are:
- >
- > -r-s--s--x news news <size> <date> <file>
- >
- > Since both permissions are the same, it seems unlikely to me that it
- > would be a permission problem. Any suggestions? Anyone else had this
- > problem and solved it?
- >
- > -John D. Boggs uunet!erato!jdb
- >
-
- The permissions of vn are not necessarily the issue, but rather the permissions
- of the directory that vn wants to write to. The default permissions of a
- user's home directory don't allow public write, su user news couldn't write
- to your home directory. Don't run vn as setuid and it should work.
-
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