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From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,news.sysadmin
Subject: MVJUNK
Keywords: bug?
Message-ID: <975@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 11 May 89 16:31:03 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex
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I have found that when the MVJUNK script (distributed over the net a
short time ago) creates a new newsgroup, the active file ends up with
TWO entries for that group. For example the active file contains:

	mail.taac-users 00000 00000 y
	mail.taac-users 00001 00001 y

I then have to delete the first of each of these entries by hand.
Shome mishtake, shurely?

Also, when a new newsgroup is created, mvjunk doesn't chown the
newly-created directory/ies to "news" but leaves them owned by root,
thus causing inews to complain when it next attempts to put an article
there. I guess this depends on local setup. At my site, every file and
directory in the news spool area is owned and grouped by "news".
I have amended my copy of mvjunk to avoid this problem.

Otherwise, mvjunk is quite a useful lil' ol' script.

-- 
Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, ENGLAND
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