todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) (07/15/89)
inews -C group.group In Bnews, the above command would create a group and not mail out control messages all over the world. In Cnews (as I found out from a *nasty* letter from epsilon@wet), the control messages are sent out. A quick fix for this is to add Distribution: local to line 108 of: [source tree]/relaynews/sh/inews and, if you already have it installed, to: /usr/bin/inews /usr/lib/newsbin/inject/inews (these two files might be in diff spots on your machine) BTW, in the next release of C News, would it be possible to link these last two files together if possible? They are the same, as far as I can tell. -- Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com "Santa Barbara - so many babes... so few who will talk to me."
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (07/18/89)
In article <1989Jul15.085917.5017@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes: >inews -C group.group > >In Bnews, the above command would create a group and not mail out >control messages all over the world. Well, in some versions of B News. The old ones we were used to weren't that restrictive. We will do *something* about this, as it's a common complaint and we consider it serious. We're not yet quite sure what. The right way to add a group locally is with "addgroup", although this is not well publicized in the documentation. We may just delete "inews -C" entirely, as there is no point in integrating this function into inews if it never sends out a control message. (inews is for posting messages, remember?) >/usr/bin/inews >/usr/lib/newsbin/inject/inews > >BTW, in the next release of C News, would it be possible to link >these last two files together if possible? ... They are indeed identical. I'm not a big fan of links, but I'll take a look at this. -- $10 million equals 18 PM | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology (Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu