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