Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!gatech!usenet From: usenet@gatech.edu Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Checkgroups message Message-ID: <15211@gatech.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 3-May-87 16:08:16 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.15211 Posted: Sun May 3 16:08:16 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 3-May-87 20:27:03 EDT Expires: Sun, 17-May-87 16:08:14 EDT Sender: spaf@gatech.edu Lines: 338 Xref: mnetor news.groups:742 news.admin:394 : News software at revisions 2.10.2 and beyond has the capability of : automatically comparing the active file against a centrally-maintained : list of active groups. A version of this message is posted on the : 1st and 16th of every month with a distribution of "na". : What follows is a shell script to run such a message at your site in case : you do not get the posted version. : : If your "inews" program does not reside in /usr/lib/news/inews, change : the variable declaration given below, or else enter the pathname at : the prompt. : : Gene Spafford : 3 May 1987 : --------------- cut here and run the rest through "sh" --------------- INEWS=${INEWS-/usr/lib/news/inews} DISTRIBUTION=${DISTRIBUTION-local} if test ! -f $INEWS; then echo -n "Enter the pathname of the inews program: " INEWS=`(read foo;echo $foo)