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From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.sa,net.news.b
Subject: Re: All these newgroup messages !!!
Message-ID: <2677@pegasus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 12:21:20 EST
Article-I.D.: pegasus.2677
Posted: Mon Dec  9 12:21:20 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Dec-85 06:44:21 EST
References: <18@waldo.UUCP>
Reply-To: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (60545451-Tony L. Hansen;LZ 3B-315;6243)
Organization: AT&T-IS Labs, Lincroft, NJ
Lines: 68
Keywords: Argh ...  (and a solution)
Xref: watmath net.news.adm:456 net.news.sa:222 net.news.b:1277
Summary: new news group shell in /bin/sh

Since I have but don't use or even want to use csh, I have rewritten the
posted "newgroup" Csh script into a /bin/sh shell script. This shell script
should be a standard part of 2.10.3 netnews along side of the rmgroup.sh.

					Tony Hansen
					ihnp4!pegasus!hansen

#!/bin/sh
# This is a shar archive.
# The rest of this file is a shell script which will extract:
# newgroup.sh
# Archive created: Mon Dec 9 12:14:14 EST 1985
echo x - newnewsgrp.sh
sed 's/^X//' > newgroup.sh << '~FUNKY STUFF~'
#! /bin/sh
#  
#   A quick shell script to add new newsgroups without inews -C
#   It even tries to make any of the needed upper-level directories ... 
#   It assumes that the group is to be postable.
#

newsuser=news
newsgrp=news			# may be "daemon" at your site
libdir=/usr/lib/news		# usually ~${newsuser}
active=${libdir}/active
spooldir=/usr/spool/news
mode=755			# Some people have them mode 777 ...
name=$0				# Just the name of this script.

case $# in
    0 )
        echo "Usage: $0 group [ group ] ..." 1>&2
        exit 1;;
esac

cp $active ${active}.old            # Just in case !!!

for group in $*
do
    echo Adding group $group ...

    #  Now to make sure all the directories exist ...
    dir=$spooldir
    for part in `echo $group | sed 's;\.; ;g'`
    do
        dir=${dir}/${part}
        if [ ! -d $dir ]
	then
            echo Making directory $dir
            /bin/mkdir $dir
            chown $newsuser $dir
            chgrp $newsgrp  $dir
            chmod $mode     $dir
        fi
    done

    #  And add to the active file ...

    echo  "$group 00000 00000 y" >> $active
done

echo All done ...
exit 0
~FUNKY STUFF~
ls -l newnewsgrp.sh
# The following exit is to ensure that extra garbage 
# after the end of the shar file will be ignored.
exit 0