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Subject: Checkgroups message
Message-ID: <7926@gatech.EDU>
Date: Tue, 16-Dec-86 00:15:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 16 00:15:15 1986
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: News software at revisions 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
: 16 December 1986
: --------------- cut here and run the rest through "sh" ---------------
INEWS=${INEWS-/usr/lib/news/inews}
DISTRIBUTION=${DISTRIBUTION-local}
if test ! -f $INEWS; then
   echo -n "Enter the pathname of the inews program: "
   INEWS=`(read foo;echo $foo)