June 2000
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
15h 18m
English
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Maintenance Tools and Tasks
Despite the complexity of C News, a news administrator’s life can be fairly easy; C News provides you with a wide variety of maintenance tools. Some of these are intended to be run regularly from cron, like newsdaily. Using these scripts greatly reduces daily care and feeding requirements of your C News installation.
Unless stated otherwise, these commands are located in
/usr/lib/news/maint. (Note that you must become user
news before invoking these commands.
Running them as a superuser may render critical newsfiles inaccessible to C News.):
- newsdaily
The name already says it: run this once a day. It is an important script that helps you keep log files small, retaining copies of each from the last three runs. It also tries to sense anomalies, like stale batches in the incoming and outgoing directories, postings to unknown or moderated newsgroups, etc. Resulting error messages are mailed to the newsmaster.
- newswatch
This script should be run regularly to look for anomalies in the news system, once an hour or so. It is intended to detect problems that will have an immediate effect on the operability of your news system, in which case it mails a trouble report to the newsmaster. Things checked include stale lock files that don’t get removed, unattended input batches, and disk space shortage.
- addgroup
This script adds a group to your site locally. The proper invocation is:
addgroup
groupnamey|n|m|=realgroupThe second argument has the same meaning as the ...
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