Re: Areafix 0.6.00

James Vahn (jvahn@short.circuit.com)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:15:14 -0800 (PST)

On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, john burton wrote:

> Only quirk I've noticed is that when areafix.pl re-writes newsfeeds
> it assigns root.root as the owner, and 644 the perms.

One of these days I hope to understand why areafix.pl needs to
run as root (Debian 1.3, maybe others?), but in the meantime
I just incorporated a "fix" and call it version 0.6.01

in or around line 770 reads

close(passive_OutHandle);
return 1;

In between those two lines add a new line, reading like so:

close(passive_OutHandle);
chown((getpwnam("news"))[2,3],$outfile);
return 1;