Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Checkgroups message (with INET groups) Message-ID: <7863@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 3 Sep 89 22:27:47 GMT Expires: 2 Dec 89 22:27:46 GMT Distribution: inet Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Lines: 462 Supersedes: <7435@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Recent versions of news support a "checkgroups" control message that can be used to help keep your active file in sync with the "standard" Usenet groups. What follows is a skeleton checkgroups control message that you can customize and run locally to check your active file. ** This version DOES contain entries for the "inet" groups. ** ** If your site does not receive the inet distribution, you should ** ** not have received this version of the checkgroups posting. ** To run this message you must: 1) Edit this message. Remove everything before (and including) the first line marked with equal signs ("="), and everything after (and including) the last line marked with equal signs. 2) Add in lines representing any groups you receive in alternate distributions such as "alt", "bionet", or "unix-pc". You can also add in lines for local groups, if you want. Entries should be one per line with the newsgroup name starting in column 1. The newsgroup names should be separated from the description (if any) by tabs. The keyword "Moderated" should appear in any line describing a moderated group. 3) If you also get the "ddn" distribution, add a line to the message for the newsgroup "ddn.mgt-bulletin" 4) Edit the "Distribution:" header line to reflect an organizational distribution, if appropriate. DO NOT remove this line, or change the distribution to something wider than your organization. 5) "su" to root or your news user, and provide this as input to the inews program with the -h option; e.g., "/usr/lib/news/inews -h