making "expire" work

[Kevin O'Gorman]

In article <260 at bacchus> darren at bacchus (Darren Friedlein) writes:
>
>I know there are better places to post messages of this genre, but I only
>get the unix-pc groups right now, so here goes:
>
>I've been trying to "expire" messages (now reaching 2 meg - just unix-pc.*!),
>but every time I run expire, no matter what the parameters, I get the message:
>
>expire: Cannot get NEWSGRP gr entry
>
>Several things could be causing this (peculiarities with my news directories
>in particular), but I think it's more likely related to a missing file or
>something like that.  Can anyone help me?  Reply through mail or
>unix-pc.general if it's of general interest.

I had the same thing happen a while back when I was thrashing around trying
to get everything from my backups restored onto a new, living machine.

There's a cpp variable NEWSGRP defined in one of the *.h files, which is the
name for the group-id that the news programs will sgid to.  You need to make
sure that the group is defined in /etc/group.  For my system, it looks like
this:

	root:NONE:0:root
	other:NONE:1:daemon,lp
	bin:NONE:2:root,bin,daemon
	sys:NONE:3:root,bin,sys,adm
	adm:NONE:4:root,adm,daemon
	mail:NONE:6:root,uucp,nuucp,uucpadm
	users:NONE:100:tutor,install
!>>	news:NONE:200:root,uucp,news,install,kevin

I hope this helps.
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