utilities(8)

NAME
mkspool, mkgroup, delgroup, updgroups - wnews utilities

DESCRIPTION

  mkspool
Mkspool is a shell script that reads the active file, and generates the spool directory hierarchy from it. This utility is only used during installation time, though it might also prove it's usefullness after a system crash. This utility is somewhat obsolete since newer versions of wnews create news spool directories on-the-fly.

  mkgroup
Mkgroup is a shell script that prompts you for a newsgroup name, a one line description and a distribution. It then sends out a control message to create the newsgroup, with the invokers name in the Approved: header line.

  delgroup
Delgroup is a shell script similair to mkgroup , but it sends out a control message to delete the newsgroup.

  updgroups
Updgroups is a utility to automatically create newsgroups on-the-fly; it walks throught the junk newsgroup to locate articles that were posted to newsgroup that are not mentioned in the system's active file. It then posts a control message to the local system to create the missing groups, and reposts the articles. To be able to do this the W-News inews program supports a special flag that informs it to repost the article, circumventing the history system.

This utility can be used by the administrator if the need arises; some sites might want to run it every night by the cron clock daemon.

AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.ow.org>