Xref: utzoo alt.sources.d:219 alt.config:1243 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,alt.config Subject: Re: Results of alt.sources renaming poll Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 89 18:38:18 GMT References: <1989Nov1.044114.1532@rpi.edu> <1989Nov1.155911.21118@rpi.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 22 In-reply-to: tale@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 1 Nov 89 15:59:11 GMT In article <1989Nov1.155911.21118@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: That is a bit of a problem. A careful admin could pull it off without any problem as long as he knew what was going on. C News as shipped will not remove the directory. I don't know about B News as shipped, but it was configured here to take out the directory while performing an rmgroup. With either, though, the directory would go away with rm -rf, which means directories for d/ and amiga/ would go too. The most major problem in all of this is many sites either don't have a news admin or have one that doesn't know/doesn't care. I think you want to modify C News's shell script so that it does: rm /usr/spool/news/newsgroup/* rmdir /usr/spool/news/newsgroup which will preserve any subgroups below it, for example alt.sources.amiga. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989.