News Server

[denapple]

I was playing with the news server in Mandrake 8.0 today (innd). Tried to create a new group, but with no success using the command:
/usr/bin/ctlinnd newgroup groupname

The error seemed to indicate I needed more parameters (rest and creator). What are they? Anyone do this much?

[EyesWideOpen]

Check out the man pages for ctlinnd (http://www.linux.com/develop/man/8/ctlinnd/) (either follow that link or type man ctlinnd on the command line).

newgroup group rest creator

[denapple]

Yeah, I looked at the man page before coming here. Looked in the link to Active, but still could find no definition of what was supposed to be in the "rest" field. Creator I can understand! What does "rest" mean here?

[EyesWideOpen]

the rest parameter should be the fourth field as described in active(5); if it is not an equal sign, only the first letter is used.

The creator can be omitted and will default to the empty string, and the rest parameter can be omitted and will default to ``y''.

[ 16 November 2001: Message edited by: EyesWideOpen ]