rc.news

(Start or stop INN daemons)

SYNOPSIS

rc.news [start | stop]

DESCRIPTION

rc.news can be used to start or stop innd and supporting programs. It checks to make sure INN is not already running, handles cases of unclean shutdown, finishes up tasks which might have been interrupted by the preceding shutdown, e-mails certain boot-time warnings to newsmaster (as set in inn.conf), and is generally safer and easier than starting and stopping everything directly. It needs to be run as the news user so that files in pathrun are created with the right ownership (though this is less important for rc.news stop).

Programs run and stopped by this script include:

OPTIONS

start

If the first argument is start, or no first argument is given, rc.news initiates INN startup.

stop

If the first argument is stop, rc.news initiates INN shutdown.

EXAMPLES

To start INN and leave certain error messages going to the terminal:

       su news -s /bin/sh -c <pathbin in inn.conf>/rc.news

To run INN at startup time from appropriate system boot scripts:

       su news -s /bin/sh -c <pathbin>/rc.news >> <pathlog>/rc.news 2>&1

To stop INN:

       su news -s /bin/sh -c '<pathbin>/rc.news stop'

BUGS

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

HISTORY

// FIXME: any attribution for rc.news itself?

This manual page written by Jeffrey M. Vinocur <jeff@litech.org> for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO

ctlinnd(8), cnfsstat(8), expirerm(8), inn.conf(5), innwatch(8), ovdb(5).

Last modified and spun 2022-12-12