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From: ggr@pyuxbb.UUCP (Guy Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b
Subject: Re: speaking of moving news
Message-ID: <315@pyuxbb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 16:27:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 16 16:27:16 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway
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Smoot-Carl-Mitchell gripes:

 > 						Personally I like the
 > way sendmail (the standard mail router from Berkeley) configures itself.  
 > All filenames used by sendmail are put in a human readable configuration 
 > file.  The only filename the program needs to know is the name of the 
 > configuration file and it can be set via an argument, if need be.  If news 
 > was written in this manner then you would only have to change the name of 
 > the news spool directory in the configuration file to actually move the
 > news articles to a separate file system.

Well, there *is* a feature in all the news programs called "pathinit"
which will get the directory to use out of the /etc/passwd file, from
the login directory of the user "netnews" (or whatever you might want
to call it).  It's all described in the directions.

			=== Guy Riddle == AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway ===