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4.17. Any tips on building Cnews?

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This article is from the 3b1 computers FAQ, by John B. Bunch with numerous contributions by others.

4.17. Any tips on building Cnews?

A sample build.def from Jan Isley (jan@bagend.uucp) follows with the following interesting characteristics noted:

- news account is uid=20, gid=20

- bin owns the executables

- using Doug Gwyn's dirent library (available on OSU)

- using a mailer that understands @ addressing (like smail 2.5)

- UNIX PC kernel does not support setuid(geteuid())

- other site-specific stuff (machine name and organization)

newsuid="news"
newsgid="news"
binuid="bin"
bingid="bin"
binsrc="no"
mess="no"
unmess="no"
newsarts="/usr/spool/news"
newsctl="/usr/lib/news"
newsbin="/usr/lib/newsbin"
newsumask="002"
newsmaster="usenet"
newsconfig="/usr/lib/news/bin/config"
chown="/bin/chown"
chboth="yes"
chgrp="/bin/chgrp"
unixkind="usg"
addrsize="big"
dbmopt=""
faststdio="no"
storeval="yes"
faststrchr="yes"
sete="no"
ranlib="no"
symdef="yes"
cc="ccc"
copts="-O"
ldopts="-s"
postlibs="-ldirent"
hostname="no"
uname="yes"
uucptype="hdb"
dftype="ustat"
dfdirs="no"
archive="yes"
spacelow="yes"
nfsgroup="no"
server="newsie"
manpages="/usr/man"
manmess="no"
rbin="/usr/bin"
doui="no"
bin="/usr/bin"
atok="yes"
postdefltdist=""
paranoid="no"
whoami="bagend"
mailname="bagend.uucp"
organization="1 Bagshot Row, the Shire"
postdefltgroup=""
newspath="/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
fake=" fsync.o mkdir.o symlink.o strerror.o"
fakehdrs=" ../include/string.h ../include/sys/timeb.h"
immediate="no"
inputstall="yes"
defsub=""
mustsub=""

 

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