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From: toad@well.sf.ca.us (Anton C. Shepps)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Cnews startup woes
Message-ID: <22002@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 6 Dec 90 18:51:12 GMT
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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I'm setting up a new site with C news, and I'm having trouble understanding
how things work.

Running SCO Unix.  I configured C news to not worry about free space, and
the spacefor we wound up with is the simple echo "100" type.

I took a checkgroups message from another site, edited it, and provided it
as input to inews, as the checkgroups header suggests.  The checkgroups
message became a control message in the control group, but nothing else
happened as a result.

I edited the list of groups and provided it as standard input to the
checkgroups script in NEWSBIN.  It updated the newsgroups file just fine,
and several hundreds relaynews (?) processes were spawned.  I had edited
the checkgroups script to actually call inews with the newgroup message
instead of just mailing the long list to the news administrator.  OK, now
hundreds of newgroup control messages are in group control, but the active
file was unaffected and no new directories were created under /usr/spool/news.

Does C news ignore control messages?  Do I have to add all the groups manually
using addgroup?  Should I be concerned that I'm using the dummy spacefor?
While the newgroup messages were being created, there were several hundred
messages under /tmp saying something about ?news not having enough space
to be happy -- uh, I can't remember the exact message, and no errors or mail
messages were generated.
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- Tony Shepps 
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