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>C News</TITLE
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TITLE="Linux Network Administrators Guide"
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TITLE="How Does Usenet Handle News?"
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REL="NEXT"
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TITLE="Delivering News"
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>Linux Network Administrators Guide</TH
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><A
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NAME="X-087-2-CNEWS"
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>Chapter 21. C News</A
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CLASS="TOC"
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><DL
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><DT
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><B
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>Table of Contents</B
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><DT
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>21.1. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.rnews.html"
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>Delivering News</A
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><DT
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>21.2. <A
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HREF="x16700.html"
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>Installation</A
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><DT
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>21.3. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.sys.html"
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>The sys File</A
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><DT
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>21.4. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.active.html"
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>The active File</A
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><DT
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>21.5. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.batcher.html"
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>Article Batching</A
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><DT
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>21.6. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.explist.html"
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>Expiring News</A
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><DT
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>21.7. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.misc.html"
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>Miscellaneous Files</A
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><DT
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>21.8. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.control.html"
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>Control Messages</A
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><DD
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>21.8.1. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.control.html#X-087-2-CNEWS.CONTROL.CANCEL"
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>The cancel Message</A
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>21.8.2. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.control.html#X-087-2-CNEWS.CONTROL.ADDGROUP"
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>newgroup and rmgroup</A
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>21.8.3. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.control.html#X-087-2-CNEWS.CONTROL.CHECKGROUPS"
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>The checkgroups Message</A
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>21.8.4. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.control.html#X-087-2-CNEWS.CONTROL.SENDSYS"
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>sendsys, version, and senduuname</A
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></DD
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><DT
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>21.9. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.nfs.html"
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>C News in an NFS Environment</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>21.10. <A
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HREF="x-087-2-cnews.maint.html"
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>Maintenance Tools and Tasks</A
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><P
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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, basic installation,
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and maintenance tasks.</P
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><P
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>
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C News stores its configuration files in
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/etc/news</TT
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>, and most of its binaries are kept
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below the <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/usr/lib/news/</TT
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> directory. Articles are
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kept below <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/var/spool/news</TT
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>. You should make sure
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that virtually all files in these directories are owned by user
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<SPAN
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CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
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>news</SPAN
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> or group <SPAN
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CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
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>news</SPAN
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>. Most problems arise from files being
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inaccessible to C News. Use <B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>su</B
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> to become the user
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<SPAN
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CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
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>news</SPAN
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> before you touch anything
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in the directory. The only exception is the
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<B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>setnewsids</B
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> command, which is used to set the real
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user ID of some news programs. It must be owned by <SPAN
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CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
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>root</SPAN
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> and have the setuid bit set.</P
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><P
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>In this chapter, 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.</P
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VALIGN="top"
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>Delivering News</TD
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