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From: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: What to do with unknown newsgroups.
Message-ID: <254@mcdchg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 17:20:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 17 17:20:42 1987
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I also favor the current 2.11 behaviour of maintaining the newsgroups
in the header as posted (or, of course, modified by aliases) for the
reasons given by several others in this forum.

In article <297@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
>Also, my /usr/lib/news/errlog keeps filling up with "unknown newsgroup
>talk.whatever not localized".  This file should not grow quickly or news
>administrators will be discouraged from looking at it.

The way I deal with this, is the following code in the .profile for the netnews
administrator login.  (Note that my LIBDIR is not in the default location.)
Maybe I'm trimming too much out of errlog.  This seems to get rid of the trash.
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if [ -s $HOME/lib/errlog ]
then
	cat $HOME/lib/errlog |
	egrep -v 'Unknown newsgroup|Newsgroups in active|Duplicate|Aliased|Orphaned|unopenable' > $HOME/lib/errlog.new
	mv $HOME/lib/errlog.new $HOME/lib/errlog
fi
if [ -s $HOME/lib/errlog ]
then
	echo "Stuff in $HOME/lib/errlog!"	# if there's still something
fi
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Ron Heiby, mcdchg!heiby		Moderator: mod.newprod & mod.os.unix
Motorola Microcomputer Division (MCD), Schaumburg, IL
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