Miscellaneous Files
There are a number of files that control the behavior of C News, but are not
essential. All of them reside in /etc/news
. We describe
them briefly here:
-
newsgroups
This is a companion file of
active
that contains a list of each newsgroup name along with a one-line description of its main topic. This file is automatically updated when C News receives achecknews
control message.-
localgroups
If you have a lot of local groups, you can keep C News from complaining about them each time you receive a
checkgroups
message by putting their names and descriptions in this file, just as they would appear innewsgroups
.-
mailpaths
This file contains the moderator’s address for each moderated group. Each line contains the group name followed by the moderator’s email address (offset by a tab).
Two special entries are provided as defaults:
backbone
andinternet
. Both provide, in bang-path notation, the path to the nearest backbone site and the site that understands RFC-822 style addresses (user@host). The default entries are:internet backbone
You do not have to change the
internet
entry if you have exim or sendmail installed; they understand RFC-822 addressing.The
backbone
entry is used whenever a user posts to a moderated group whose moderator is not listed explicitly. If the newsgroup’s name isalt.sewer
and thebackbone
entry contains path!%s, C News will mail the article to path!alt-sewer, hoping that the backbone machine is able to forward the article. To find out ...
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