earlw@ucat.UUCP (Earl Wallace) (10/30/86)
I ran a shell script last night against my /usr/lib/news/newgroups file to force creation of any newsgroups that weren't installed on ucat. In my haste to add in the new newsgroups and remove the old, I forgot to add the "-d local" flag to the "inews -C" command and the newgroup creation messages were sent all over the net. This was NOT my intent. If all these groups are creat- ed on your system, you are going to end up with a news system that keeps tel- ling you that the ACTIVE file is too long. If this happens to you, you might try making a new version of inews after changing the AFSIZ define (defs.h) to a much larger number. Again, I am sorry for the barrage of control messages, it shall not occur again. Earl Wallace earlw@ucat