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6 innupgrade - Upgrade INN configuration files
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9 innupgrade directory
10 innupgrade [-t type] -f file
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14 innupgrade is intended to be run during a major upgrade of INN to fix
15 the configuration files with any required changes. If given a
16 directory, it will scan that directory for any files that it has
17 updates defined for, try to perform those updates, and replace the
18 files with updated versions if applying the updates resulted in any
19 changes. The old versions of the files will be saved with a ".OLD"
20 extension.
21 If the -f flag is used, only that file will be updated. If the file
23 name doesn't match the standard file name of an INN configuration file,
24 the optional -t flag may be given to specify the type. See "EXAMPLES"
25 for an example of this.
26 Currently, innupgrade knows how to apply the following updates:
28 incoming.conf
30 • Rename nolist and noresendid to respectively list and resendid.
31 Invert the related boolean values (since INN 2.7).
32 • Comment removed comment and email parameters (since INN 2.7).
34 inn.conf
36 • Quote values with whitespace and comment out keys with no values,
37 required for the change in configuration parsers introduced in
38 INN 2.4. The new format is not backward compatible with the
39 previous parser, since the previous parser will include the double-
40 quotes in the value of the parameter.
41 • Add the hismethod parameter if not found (introduced in INN 2.4,
43 with the default value "hisv6").
44 • Rename nntpactsync to incominglogfrequency (since INN 2.5). Rename
46 addnntppostingdate and addnntppostinghost to respectively
47 addinjectiondate and addinjectionpostinghost (since INN 2.6).
48 • Remove the refusecybercancels and verifycancels parameters (since
50 INN 2.7).
51 • If the overview.fmt file exists, its content is merged in the
53 extraoverviewadvertised and extraoverviewhidden parameters
54 introduced in INN 2.5. The file is then renamed to
55 overview.fmt.OLD.
56 • If the sasl.conf file exists, its content is merged in the
58 tlscapath, tlscafile, tlscertfile and tlskeyfile parameters
59 introduced in INN 2.5. The file is then renamed to sasl.conf.OLD.
60 inn-secrets.conf
62 • Create a non-world-readable inn-secrets.conf file in pathetc, if
63 not already existing (new in INN 2.7).
64 newsfeeds
66 • Replace the use of startinnfeed with the appropriate direct
67 invocation of innfeed or imapfeed (startinnfeed was removed in
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69 • Replace the use of filechan with buffchan in unbuffered mode
71 (filechan was removed in INN 2.7).
72 readers.conf
74 • Rename require_ssl to require_encryption (since INN 2.7).
75 A few obsolete programs or configuration files are renamed with a
77 ".OLD" extension by innupgrade. Obsolete man pages are directly
78 removed.
79 Normally, innupgrade should be run at least on the pathetc directory
81 after any upgrade of INN other than a patch release (any upgrade that
82 changes the first or second version numbers). This may occur
83 automatically during the upgrade process.
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86 -f file
87 Only act on file rather than working on an entire directory.
88 -t type
90 For a file specified with -f, parse it and upgrade it as if it were
91 named type. Used for upgrading files with the same syntax as
92 normal INN configuration files but with different names. Only
93 makes sense in combination with -f.
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96 Upgrade any configuration files found in pathetc and append a ".OLD"
97 extension to obsolete files in pathetc:
98 innupgrade <pathetc in inn.conf>
100 Upgrade only /news/etc/inn.conf:
102 innupgrade -f /news/etc/inn.conf
104 Upgrade a file named inn-special.conf that should have the same syntax
106 as inn.conf:
107 innupgrade -t inn.conf -f inn-special.conf
109 Any upgrade rules that apply to inn.conf will be applied to the
111 alternate file.
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114 Written by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> for InterNetNews.
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117 incoming.conf(5), inn.conf(5), inn-secrets.conf(5), newsfeeds(5),
118 readers.conf(5).
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