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<TITLE>C-News</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node260.html">Delivering News</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="nag.html">The Network Administrators' Guide</A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node258.html">How Does Usenet Handle </A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION0019000000">C-News</A></H1>
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<A NAME="cnews"></A>
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One of the most popular software packages for Netnews is C-News. It was
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designed for sites that carry news over UUCP links. This chapter
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will discuss the central concepts of C-News, and the basic installation
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and maintenance tasks.
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C-News stores its configuration files in /usr/lib/news, and most of its
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binaries in the /usr/lib/news/bin directory. Articles are kept below
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/var/spool/news. You should make sure virtually all files in these
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directories are owned by user news, group news. Most
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problems arise from files being inaccessible to C-News. Make it a rule
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for you to become user news using su before you touch
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anything in there. The only exceptions is setnewsids, which is
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used to set the real user id of some news programs. It must be owned by
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root and must have the setuid bit set.
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In the following, we describe all C-News configuration files in detail,
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and show you what you have to do to keep your site running.
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<LI> <A HREF="node260.html#SECTION0019100000">Delivering News</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node261.html#SECTION0019200000">Installation</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node262.html#SECTION0019300000">The <TT>sys</TT> file</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node263.html#SECTION0019400000">The active file</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node264.html#SECTION0019500000">Article Batching</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node265.html#SECTION0019600000">Expiring News</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node266.html#SECTION0019700000">Miscellaneous Files</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node267.html#SECTION0019800000">Control Messages</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node268.html#SECTION0019810000">The cancel Message</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node269.html#SECTION0019820000">newgroup and rmgroup</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node270.html#SECTION0019830000">The checkgroups Message</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node271.html#SECTION0019840000">sendsys, version, and senduuname</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node272.html#SECTION0019900000">C-News in an NFS Environment</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="node273.html#SECTION00191000000">Maintenance Tools and Tasks</A>
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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