We had a little debuging session due to inn 1.5.1 starting as root instead of
the configured value news. The problem was caused by _PATH_INNDDIR and the
following lines of inndstart.c:
  
    /* Make sure INND directory exists. */
    if (stat(INNDDIR, &Sb) < 0 || !S_ISDIR(Sb.st_mode)) {
        syslog(L_FATAL, "inndstart cant stat %s %m", INNDDIR);
        exit(1);
    }
    NewsUID = Sb.st_uid;
    NewsGID = Sb.st_gid;

So inndstart takes user and group values from _PATH_INNDDIR, and our
dir was owned by root =).


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