1ACTIVE.TIMES(5)           InterNetNews Documentation           ACTIVE.TIMES(5)
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NAME

6       active.times - List of local creation times of newsgroups
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DESCRIPTION

9       The file pathdb/active.times provides a chronological record of when
10       newsgroups were created on the local server.  This file is normally
11       updated by mod-active and innd whenever a newgroup control message is
12       processed or a "ctlinnd newgroup" command is issued, and is used by
13       nnrpd to answer NEWGROUPS requests.
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15       Each line consists of three fields:
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17           <name> <time> <creator>
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19       The first field is the name of the newsgroup.  The second field is the
20       time it was created, expressed as the number of seconds since the
21       epoch.  The third field is plain text intended to describe the entity
22       that created the newsgroup.  This field is encoded in UTF-8 and is
23       usually the e-mail address of the person who created the group, as
24       specified in the control message or on the ctlinnd command line, or the
25       newsmaster specified at configure time if no creator argument was given
26       to ctlinnd (by default, it is "usenet").
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28       You can get the active.times file of another NNTP server with
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EXAMPLE

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34          news.admin.moderation 1175716803 <group-admin@isc.org>
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36       shows that the newsgroup news.admin.moderation was created on April
37       4th, 2007, at 20:00:03 UTC.  This date can be obtained for instance
38       with "convdate -dc 1175716803" (convdate(1) is shipped with INN) or
39       "date -u -d "Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 +0000 + 1175716803 seconds"".  It is
40       when the newsgroup was locally created; in this example, it is when a
41       control message sent by "group-admin@isc.org" was received and
42       processed by the news server (see control.ctl(5) for more details).
43       Therefore, the time is not necessarily the same on every news server.
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HISTORY

46       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  Converted
47       to POD by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>.
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49       $Id: active.times.pod 9971 2015-12-10 20:30:10Z iulius $
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SEE ALSO

52       active(5), convdate(1), ctlinnd(8), getlist(1), inn.conf(5), innd(8),
53       mod-active(8), nnrpd(8).
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57INN 2.6.3                         2016-10-07                   ACTIVE.TIMES(5)
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