Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 113

System Set-Up and Operation
hackster% su
Password:
SU: shannon / dev / console
hackster# su news
hackster%
Sun 100/150 Installation Manual
2.
Restore your /u,r/,pool/new, hierarchy and the following files from /u,r/lib/new,: active,
'Y',
hidory.
3. Check your /u,r/lib/new,/ active file and clean out any duplicates and old newsgroups.
4. Make the new spool directories:
hack5ter% cd /usr/lib/news/cvt
hackster% sh cvt.mkdirs.sh /usr/lib/news /usr/spool/news
5. Convert the hidory file:
hackster% cc cvt.hist.c -Idbm
hackster% a.out /usr/lib/news
6.
Convert the active file:
hackster% sh cvt.active.sh /usr/lib/news /usr/spool/news
7. Make links to spooled articles (this takes some time):
hackster% sh cvt.links.sh /usr/lib/news /usr/spool/news
8. Clean out the old spool hierarchy:
hackster% sh cvt.clean.sh /usr/spool/news
Several shell scripts and C programs are provided (in the directory / u,r/lib/
new,/
cvt) to help
with this conversion. The above scripts will convert active and create the new directory tree.
The final script removes the old dot files and directories.
After the conversion, you should create two new newsgroups: junk and control. Junk is for
messages that are in an invalid newsgroup (so you can see what's getting thrown away).
Con-
trol is for control messages. Ordinary users probably won't want to read either, but as
administrator you might want to. To create them:
hackster% mkdir /usr/spool/news/junk /usr/spool/news/control
and add the following two lines to the end of /
u,r/
Iib/
new,/
active:
junk 00000
control 00000
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Revision H of 12 March 1984