seth@megad.UUCP (Seth H Zirin) (07/31/85)
> Stanford's cluster of netnews machines has grown to the point where it is no > longer reasonable for me to log on to each of them and manually create new > groups. Our distribution code is "su"; I'd like to be able to send out > newgroup control messages creating "su.news", "su.forsale", and that kind of > thing, and make sure that the right thing happens. The "right thing" is that > I want this control message to go to every machine in the "su" distribution, > but nowhere else, and I want it to create a new newsgroup on every machine > in the "su" distribution. Modify the news sys files on each machine to accept and forward su.* to all of your machines, but not to any outside machines. The following would be an example: megad:net,fa,mod,na,usa,to,su,:: megada:net,fa,mod,na,usa,to,su:F:/usr/spool/batch/megada megadb:net,fa,mod,na,usa,to,su:F:/usr/spool/batch/megadb outside:net,fa,mod,na,usa,to:F:/usr/spool/batch/outside -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Seth H Zirin UUCP: {decvax, ihnp4}!philabs!sbcs!megad!seth Keeper of the News for megad