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From: dugo@xs4all.nl (Jacob Goense)
Subject: [TUHS] make inn automatically accept new group control messages
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:21:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cff8d22be0208fae471cb86c2f9836ea@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1704191508220.5445@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On 2017-04-19 07:10, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
> 
>> > Looks like INN isn't quite as trusting as CNews, so it doesn't
>> > automatically create a group when it receives a control message.
>> > Anyone know how to make it do that, or at least email me to notify of
>> > the new group?
>> 
>> ctlinnd newgroup tuhs.tuhslist
>> 
>> I think that's what I did on my Inn system.
> 
> (Gadzooks; first time I've seen Newsgroups: for ages!)
> 
> Isn't there a config file that says something like "this user can issue
> these ctl commands for these groups"?

I have not touched INN in ages either. I'm sure you need to be in
control.ctl to configure this. It will be a while until we see
control message abuse on this August network, so you could probably
put in something like newgroup:*:*:doit for now.


      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-19  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-18 22:34 John Floren
2017-04-19 11:02 ` Warren Toomey
2017-04-19  5:10   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-19  9:21     ` Jacob Goense [this message]

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