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RC.NEWS(8)                InterNetNews Documentation                RC.NEWS(8)


NAME

       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:

       o   Always:  innd is started or stopped.

       o   If doinnwatch is true in inn.conf:  innwatch is started and
           stopped.

       o   If docnfsstat is true in inn.conf:  cnfsstat is started and
           stopped.

       o   If ovmethod is set to "ovdb" in inn.conf:  ovdb_init is run;
           ovdb_server and ovdb_monitor are stopped.

       o   If rc.news.local exists in pathbin:  rc.news.local is run with
           argument "start" or "stop" (to perform site-specific startup or
           shutdown tasks).

       o   When started, if INN appears to have previously been shut down
           during its expiry process, run expirerm if there are articles to
           unlink.

       o   When started, if overview data appears to have just been rebuilt
           and active needs to be renumbered, then actually renumber it.


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.

       $Id: rc.news.pod 9723 2014-09-24 17:54:24Z iulius $


SEE ALSO

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

INN 2.6.0                         2015-09-12                        RC.NEWS(8)

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