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From: gordon@sneaky.UUCP (Gordon Burditt)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Updating Active file
Keywords: Active newsgroups
Message-ID: <28553@sneaky.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 06:11:13 GMT
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>I am also a newer uunet subscriber and had the same problem.  What you will
>need to do is to follow the procedure on pages 192 through 193 of the Managing
>uucp and Usenet Nutshell handbook that you received from uunet to manually add
>the news groups to your active file.  Assuming your news library directory is
>/usr/lib/news and you wanted to add newsgroup gnu.announceStatus, the command
>would be:
>
>	/usr/lib/news/inews -C gnu.announceStatus </dev/null

PLEASE! be careful with this!  The default distribution for newgroup messages
on some news systems is "world", and your newgroup message will propogate all
over the net.  If your group isn't supposed to be net-wide, you will
be flamed for it.  If your group isn't just local creation of an
existing group, you will be flamed for not using the proper group
creation procedures (which involve a proposal, a discussion period,
and voting).  Let's make that:

	/usr/lib/news/inews -d local -C gnu.announceStatus < /dev/null

Further, if "gnu.announceStatus" is supposed to be moderated, this is
going to unmoderate it (and if you used the first version, it will happen
all over the net!).  So let's change it to:

	/usr/lib/news/inews -d local -C gnu.announceStatus moderated < /dev/null

						Gordon L. Burditt
						sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon