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From: crl@CSvax:Pucc-H:pur-phy.UUCP
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Subject: better check your greps!
Message-ID: <941@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 20:09:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: pur-phy.941
Posted: Mon Sep 19 20:09:00 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Sep-83 15:48:59 EDT
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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Everyone had better check that your grep supports both the -s flag
(diagnostic output only) and exiting with non-zero status if no matches
are found.  Inews uses a "grep -s newsgroup /usr/lib/news/active" when
a user tries to submit to a non-existent newsgroup, to see if it had
existed at one time.  If the system() call returns true (exit status
0), then inews will create the group, otherwise, it will punt.  I don't
know where we got the version of grep that didn't do this, but it may
have been distributed with 2.8 BSD, so 2.8 BSD system managers beware!

Charles LaBrec
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