File Modes And Permissions - Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual

Files USENET Installation and Maintenance
help
Displays a list of legitimate commands when an illegal command is typed to re.d-
new,.
"idorll
Lists every article received by your system. Used to reject articles that come in for
the second time (presumably via a different path). The Ai,tor, file will grow, but
may
be
cleaned out with the ezpire command.
"'dory.dir, h',tory.pag
log
ngfile
noti/1I
organization
These two files are used as a hashed version of A',tor1l; they contain the message
ID's of all articles in the hi,tor1l file. Both files are updated by inew, and ezpire.
If present, maintains a log of articles processed and error conditions encountered.
The log file can grow without limit, so it is cleaned out periodically by running
new,. week from cron.
Lists newsgroups that you can legally post to locally. Actually, it's a pattern, so if
you include all it will allow everything. You probably want to forbid fa.aU here,
for example, since
la.
groups are not posted to directly. There is also a mechanism
for controlling which newsgroups you will accept from other sites - see the section
on the format of the
'11'
file, below.
Names the user to notify in case of a problem. If the file is empty, nobody is
notified. The not'/1I file is especially useful if one person administers several sys-
tems, and does not want multiple copies of control message notifications.
Contains (on one line) the name and address of your organization. This informa-
tion is inserted in the articles you post.
recnew,
Arranges to send mail to post news.
recording
Lists newsgroup classes and file names to display recordings for. Recordings on cer-
tain newsgroups are intended to remind the user of the rules for the newsgroup; in
the case of a certain companies, recordings may
be
used to remind news authors to
protect proprietary information.
Recording
contains one line per recording. Each line contains two fields, separated
by a space. The first field is the newsgroup class (net.aU, for example); the second
field is the name of the file containing the recorded message. If the file name does
not begin with a slash, it is searched for in /u,r/lib/new,.
,endnew, Sends news internally from one computer to another. Useful if you use mail links
to transmit articles.
,eq Contains the current sequence number for your system. Used to generate unique
article ID's.
,y,
Lists all your neighbors, which newsgroups they subscribe to, and how to send news
to them.
Sy8's
format is documented below.
u,e" Lists users who read news on your system.
uureq Receives news sent by ,endnew,.
1.1.
File Modes and Permissions
The current intended state of affairs is that inew, runs set-user-id (suid) news. The re.dnew,
program does not need to be set-user-id. This makes it possible to write your own interface to
read news instead of using readnew,.
2
7 January 1984