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INN FAQ Part 7/9: Problems with INN already running
Section - (7.14) Directories are being created with wrong permissions.

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> Question:
>When I received news for /var/spool/news/foo/bar for the first
>time, the directories got created:
>
># ls -lgR foo
>total 1
>d-wx-w-rwx  2 news     news          512 Feb  9 00:03 bar/
>
>What did I do wrong?
>
>##  Mode that directories are created under.
>#### =()<GROUPDIR_MODE          @<GROUPDIR_MODE>@>()=
>GROUPDIR_MODE           2775

  Answer:
You forgot a zero in front of this number, for the C compiler to interpret it
as octal instead of decimal.




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