From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!utah-cs!lepreau
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: Re: Active file deletions
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.784
Posted: Fri Jun 18 17:39:03 1982
Received: Sat Jun 19 04:51:24 1982


Yeah, this can be a problem.  Here's a script I run every now and then,
particularly after I've edited the active file to reorder it.  It's
probably missing some long ng name substutitions at other sites.

cd /usr/spool/news
ls -d [a-z]* | sed -e 's/wizar$/wizards/' -e 's/rogu$/rogue/' \
 -e 's/pacm$/pacman/' -e 's/newsi$/newsite/' -e 's/base$/baseball/' \
 -e 's/hock$/hockey/' -e 's/skydiv$/skydive/' -e 's/direc$/directory/' \
 > /tmp/chkngs.$$
sort /usr/lib/news/active | diff - /tmp/chkngs.$$
rm /tmp/chkngs.$$

-jay lepreau