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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Updating Active file
Message-ID: <{S*#67_@rpi.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 90 02:37:03 GMT
References: <196@jgaltstl.UUCP> <180@fdls.UUCP> <28553@sneaky.UUCP>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In article <28553@sneaky.UUCP> gordon@sneaky.UUCP (Gordon Burditt) writes:
> 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

I believe the original poster was trying to indicate moderatedness
with the Status suffix; of course, I could be wrong.  This isn't
especially the reason I am posting though.

This is:

Please don't assume things about other people's software set-up when
there is a a very good possibility that your assumption is wrong; if
you do assume something, then state what you are assuming.  For the
previous two articles in this thread it would be akin to, "I am
assuming you are a B News site."

Standard C News sites should use addgroup to create groups locally.
Syntax is "$NEWBIN/maint/addgroup group flag".  It doesn't fire up any
extra inews->relaynews->ctl-programme procedure; it just goes right to
the active file and makes the necessary addition.

I do not know how groups are created locally in other news systems.

Dave
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