Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.CSNET Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!usenet From: usenet@gatech.CSNET Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Checkgroups message Message-ID: <393@gatech.CSNET> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 00:23:58 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.393 Posted: Mon Jul 1 00:23:58 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 07:36:36 EDT Expires: Mon, 15-Jul-85 00:23:58 EDT Sender: spaf@gatech.CSNET Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech Lines: 243 Approved: spaf@gatech.UUCP : News software at revision 2.10.2 and beyond has the capability of : automatically comparing the active file against a centrally-maintained : list of active groups. Until a majority of network sites upgrade their : news to a version compatible with the "checkgroups" control message, : site administrators will have to run the message by hand. What follows : is a shell script to run such a message at your site. If your "inews" : program does not reside in /usr/lib/news/inews, change the variable : declaration given below, or else enter the pathname at the prompt. : : Gene Spafford : 1 July 1985 : --------------- cut here and run the rest through "sh" --------------- INEWS=${INEWS-/usr/lib/news/inews} if test ! -f $INEWS; then echo -n "Enter the pathname of the inews program: " INEWS=`(read foo;echo $foo)