Usenet Installation And Maintenance; Files - Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual

USENET Installation and Maintenance
This paper addresses a few (slightly disjunct) topics relevant to system administrators installing,
converting, or maintaining a network news system. The basic installation and conversion pro-
cedures are discussed in the body of the S,l,tem IndaUation and Maintenance Guide; here we
give more detailed information on usage and maintenance.
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Files
The files in / u,r / lib/ new, and their functions are:
active
cae,ar
Lists active newsgroups. Each line of the active file contains two fields: the news-
group name, and the highest local article number (for the most recently received
article within the newsgroup). The &elds are separated by a space. Local article
numbers begin at 1 and increment as articles are received. They do not usually
correspond to local article numbers at other sites. The article number is always
stored as a
5
digit number (with leading zeros) to allow updating of the &le in place.
Active is automatically updated as new newsgroups come in.
The order of active's list of newsgroups dictates the order in which news will be
presented by readnew" so you might want to edit active and arrange the news-
groups accordingly. Here is a recommended order for active:
general
local.general
net.general
net.followup
local newsgroups, in alphabetical order
net.all newsgroups, in alphabetical order
junk
fa.all, in alphabetical order
test
all.test
to.all
control
Does caesar decoding of rotated text on a line-by-line basis. Cae,ar copies standard
input to the standard output, rotating each line according to a static single letter
frequency table. If an integer argument is given (13, for example, may be used to
encode material for posting), every line is rotated by that argument, without regard
for letter frequencies. Call up cae,ar by using the
D
readnew, command.
7 January
1984
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