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Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: rn problem with news 2.11
Message-ID: <369@riddle.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 16:51:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: riddle.369
Posted: Fri Jun 12 16:51:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jun-87 21:58:38 EDT
References: <819@mouska.UUCP> <550@acer.stl.stc.co.uk>
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
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Summary: Shell script parses active, creates directories

In article <550@acer.stl.stc.co.uk>, dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) writes:
> In article <819@mouska.UUCP> glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee) writes:
> >In 2.11, the directory was created with the first article.
> >It seems that rn (4.1) has trouble with this.
> 
> What I do is to create the directory manually every time I get told that a
> new group has been created (our system is set to mail News Admin (me) for
> such control messages).    When we had a large number of new groups created
> recently I edited the mail headers into a script of 'mkdir's.

What follows is a shell script I created to do just that.  Sorry.  It's not
bundled up into shar format or anything.  Just cut it out...

:
# chkactdir
#	Script which creates any directories required by the active file, but
#	which do not currently exist.  Works by generating for each group
#	in active the names of all directories required for that group
#	under /usr/spool/news (topmost first) and passing on the names of
#	those which do not exist.  The resulting list is sorted to
#	eliminate duplicates and make sure parent directories are specified
#	ahead of their children.  Mkdir does the rest.
#
# Usage: chkactdir
#	SPOOL and ACTIVE, if set in the environment, override the defaults
#	of /usr/spool/news and /usr/lib/news/active respectively.
#
# 870609 DFD	Created

umask 22
(
	OIFS=$IFS
	while read i junk
	do
		IFS=${IFS}.
		set $i
		IFS=$OIFS
		dir=${SPOOL-/usr/spool/news}
		for j
		do
			dir=$dir/$j
			if [ ! -d $dir ]
			then
				echo $dir
			fi
		done
	done
) < ${ACTIVE-/usr/lib/news/active} | sort -u | xargs mkdir 2> /dev/null

That's it.

Dominic Dunlop   UKnet: domo@sphinx.co.uk