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One of the most popular software packages for Netnews is C-News. It was
designed for sites that carry news over UUCP links. This chapter
will discuss the central concepts of C-News, and the basic installation
and maintenance tasks.C-News stores its configuration files in /usr/lib/news, and most of its
binaries in the /usr/lib/news/bin directory. Articles are kept below
/var/spool/news. You should make sure virtually all files in these
directories are owned by user news, group news. Most
problems arise from files being inaccessible to C-News. Make it a rule
for you to become user news using su before you touch
anything in there. The only exceptions is setnewsids, which is
used to set the real user id of some news programs. It must be owned by
root and must have the setuid bit set.In the following, we describe all C-News configuration files in detail,
and show you what you have to do to keep your site running.Delivering NewsInstallationThe sys fileThe active fileArticle BatchingExpiring NewsMiscellaneous FilesControl MessagesThe cancel Messagenewgroup and rmgroupThe checkgroups Messagesendsys, version, and senduunameC-News in an NFS EnvironmentMaintenance Tools and TasksAndrew AndersonThu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996