scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) (05/24/90)
In article <90May22.235719edt.19970@me.utoronto.ca> eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes: >Since I'm passing on the usenet alias to someone else, I thought I'd >ease the pain of all the stupid newgroups in alt.*. Now it just tells >you to do an addgroup alt.dorkheads (aw jeez, now some dork will >actually go out and do it!). Replaces $NEWSBIN/ctl/newgroup. Since I'm not the first, I thought that I'd pass along my versions of ctl/newgroup and ctl/rmgroup. Also hacked to only pass a message, but sends along any message text from the original control article. #! /bin/sh # newgroup group flag - create group (4-field version: B-2.10.3+ compatible) # subject to our sys file group pattern # =()<. ${NEWSCONFIG-@<NEWSCONFIG>@}>()= . ${NEWSCONFIG-/usr/lib/news/bin/config} export NEWSCTL NEWSBIN NEWSARTS PATH=$NEWSCTL/bin:$NEWSBIN/relay:$NEWSBIN:$NEWSPATH ; export PATH # include mkpdir umask $NEWSUMASK afile=/tmp/ncd afilehdr=/tmp/ncdhdr afilebody=/tmp/ncdbody hdr=/tmp/nc$$ trap "rm -f $hdr $afile*; exit 0" 0 $NEWSBIN/inject/tear $afile $NEWSBIN/canonhdr <$afilehdr >$hdr # unapproved ctl msg? then quit grep -s '^Approved:' $hdr >/dev/null || { rm -f $hdr; exit 0; } SENDER="`grep '^Sender:' $hdr | sed 's/^[^:]*: *//'`" case "$SENDER" in "") SENDER="`grep '^From:' $hdr | sed 's/^[^:]*: *//' `" ;; esac ( echo "Subject: newgroup $1 $2"; echo "$SENDER says:"; cat $afilebody ) | mail $NEWSMASTER #! /bin/sh # rmgroup group - snuff group # =()<. ${NEWSCONFIG-@<NEWSCONFIG>@}>()= . ${NEWSCONFIG-/usr/lib/news/bin/config} export NEWSCTL NEWSBIN NEWSARTS PATH=$NEWSCTL/bin:$NEWSBIN:$NEWSPATH ; export PATH umask $NEWSUMASK afile=/tmp/ncd afilehdr=/tmp/ncdhdr afilebody=/tmp/ncdbody hdr=/tmp/nc$$ $NEWSBIN/inject/tear $afile $NEWSBIN/canonhdr <$afilehdr >$hdr # unapproved ctl msg? then quit egrep '^Approved:' $hdr >/dev/null || { rm -f $afile*; exit 0; } # quit if no active entry egrep "^`echo $1 | sed 's/\./\\\\./g'` " $NEWSCTL/active >/dev/null || { rm -f $hdr $afile*; exit 0; } SENDER="`grep '^Sender:' $hdr | sed 's/^[^:]*: *//'`" case "$SENDER" in "") SENDER="`grep '^From:' $hdr | sed 's/^[^:]*: *//'`" ;; esac # tell the local usenet administrator to do it by hand ( echo "Subject: rmgroup $1"; echo "$SENDER says:"; cat $afilebody ) | mail $NEWSMASTER rm -f $hdr $afilehdr $afilebody -- Scott Hazen Mueller | scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG or (ames|pyramid|vsi1)!zorch!scott 10122 Amador Oak Ct.|(408) 253-6767 |Mail fusion-request@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG Cupertino, CA 95014|Love make, not more|for emailed sci.physics.fusion digests SF-Bay Public-Access Unix 408-996-7358/61/78/86 login newuser password public
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (05/24/90)
In article <90May22.235719edt.19970@me.utoronto.ca> eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes: >[Henry: can you add an auto/manual newgroup question to build to >tailor this?] Doing *something* about this -- details unsettled -- is definitely on the to-do list. -- Life is too short to spend | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology debugging Intel parts. -Van J.| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu