rc.news(8)

1RC.NEWS(8)                InterNetNews Documentation                RC.NEWS(8)
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NAME

6       rc.news - Start or stop INN daemons
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SYNOPSIS

9       rc.news [start | stop]
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DESCRIPTION

12       rc.news can be used to start or stop innd and supporting programs.  It
13       checks to make sure INN is not already running, handles cases of
14       unclean shutdown, finishes up tasks which might have been interrupted
15       by the preceding shutdown, e-mails certain boot-time warnings to
16       newsmaster (as set in inn.conf), and is generally safer and easier than
17       starting and stopping everything directly.  It needs to be run as the
18       news user so that files in pathrun are created with the right ownership
19       (though this is less important for "rc.news stop").
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21       Programs run and stopped by this script include:
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23       ·   Always:  innd is started or stopped.
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25       ·   If doinnwatch is true in inn.conf:  innwatch is started and
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28       ·   If docnfsstat is true in inn.conf:  ovdb_init is run; ovdb_server
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31       ·   If rc.news.local exists in pathbin:  rc.news.local is run with
32           argument "start" or "stop" (to perform site-specific startup or
33           shutdown tasks).
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OPTIONS

36       "start"
37           If the first argument is "start", or no first argument is given,
38           rc.news initiates INN startup.
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40       "stop"
41           If the first argument is "stop", rc.news initiates INN shutdown.
42           It is recommended to throttle the server first as described in
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EXAMPLES

46       To start INN and leave certain error messages going to the terminal:
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48              su -m news -c /etc/rc.news
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50       To run INN at startup time from appropriate system boot scripts:
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52              su -m news -c /etc/rc.news >/dev/console
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54       To stop INN (throttling first):
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56              <pathbin>/ctlinnd throttle reason
57              su -m news -c '/etc/rc.news stop'
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BUGS

60       Running "rc.news start" as root is never the right thing to do, so we
61       should at minimum check for this and error, or perhaps change effective
62       user ID.
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HISTORY

65       // FIXME:  any attribution for rc.news itself?
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67       This manual page written by Jeffrey M. Vinocur <jeff@litech.org> for
68       InterNetNews.
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70       $Id: rc.news.pod 8517 2009-06-17 17:49:36Z iulius $
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