Aduke.1230 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!chico!duke!trt Sun Oct 11 01:34:55 1981 Re: ihps3.133: Must mode of news files be 666? The mode of news files need not be 666 in "version A news" (Duke's). The file param.h has a #define N_UMASK which is by default 022 but could be made 077, for example, without problem. In fact, /usr/spool/news itself could be mode 700. This is not too useful, though, since read/write/control access was never implemented. Perhaps you are using version B of news, which creates news files mode 666(?) as a convenicence? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.