Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!bllklly From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: Re: creating mod groups Message-ID: <486@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Nov-84 10:42:38 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.486 Posted: Fri Nov 23 10:42:38 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Nov-84 20:56:33 EST References: <227@amdcad.UUCP> <78@daemon.UUCP> Reply-To: bllklly@maccunix.UUCP (Bill Kelly) Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 15 Summary: <> A terse way to create a newsgroup foo on your machine is: inews -n control -t "cmsg newsgroup foo" < /dev/null This is what checkgroups does in 2.10.2 news. I can never remember the exact format, so I "grep inews /usr/lib/news/checkgroups" when we miss a create group message. -- Bill Kelly {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!bllklly 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 "Sometimes, Penfold, I wish I was just drawing the cartoons, not starring in them."