CNEWSDO
Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (8CN)
Updated: 14 Aug 1994
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NAME
cnewsdo - run C News maintenance commands
SYNOPSIS
cnewsdo
command [argument ...]
DESCRIPTION
Cnewsdo
runs any of the C News maintenance
commands
(see
newsmaint(8CN))---or
indeed any command in the normal C News shell search path---after
first setting up a suitable PATH and umask,
and checking that the commands are being run
under the same user id that owns the
active
file
(see
newsdb(5)).
This is essentially a convenience,
especially for novice news administrators and
those who believe there is special virtue in being able to invoke
various kinds of administrative functionality through a single command.
SEE ALSO
newsmaint(8CN)
DIAGNOSTICS
``running as `abc', should be running as `def''' means that
cnewsdo
is being run as
abc,
but
def
owns the
active
file (and therefore, presumably, the rest of the news system).
HISTORY
Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer and Geoff Collyer.
BUGS
Arguably, most any problem addressed by
cnewsdo
should be addressed by news-administrator education instead.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- SEE ALSO
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- DIAGNOSTICS
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- HISTORY
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- BUGS
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