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- Subject: Re: cnews utilities fixed and another problem found
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- From: cs.dal.ca!iisat!duncan!root (David John Murdoch at duncan)
- Organization: Duncan Computer Centre and Home Brewery
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:37:50 GMT
- Reply-To: root@duncan.UUCP (David John Murdoch at duncan)
- Message-ID: <9209091537.38@duncan>
- References: <@duncan> <9209081013.47@duncan> <1992Sep09.100733.19641@acme.gen.nz>
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- In article <1992Sep09.100733.19641@acme.gen.nz> kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
- >root@duncan.UUCP (David John Murdoch at duncan) writes:
- >
- >> But I have discovered that new directories are not created by cnews
- >> when a new newsgroup is received and it is explicitly listed in sys i.e.
- >> ME:news.future,news.sysadmin,...
- >> How do I turn on creating new directories when a new expected newsgroup
- >> is received.
- >
- >Is the newsgroup in your active file (/usr/lib/news/active)? If not, use
- >/usr/lib/newsbin/maint/addgroup to create the group locally. If it is in
- >active, relaynews will automatically create the necessary spool directories.
- >
- > - k
- >--
- >Craig Harding kilroy@acme.gen.nz ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
- >"Jub'f Xvob?"
-
- Well, that's how I usually do it, but occasionally I'll get mail telling
- me that so-and-so@some.place had created alt.somegroup locally. When I
- look in my active file the group is entered but no spool directory has
- been created.
-
- Cheers,
-
- David
-
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- __________________________________________________________________________
- David Murdoch * cs.dal.ca!iisat!duncan!djm * Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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