At 08:19 AM 12/1/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Good day,
>
> According to the manual, the file control.conf can create or delete
> newsgroup automatically upon demands. How can we achieve that? Do we have
> to create some control groups such as control.newgroup and control.rmgroup?
You need at least a control news group, ideally you should create a
control.newgroup and control.rmgroup so you can see them separately
from cancels.
>Any entry we need to add in the newsfeeds.conf, access.conf, control.conf,
>expire.conf or dnews.conf? How can a user send a request to create or
>delete a newsgroup? Is it by sending a mail to one of the control groups?
>Which one it should be? Please advise.
The config file you need to examine is control.conf it specifies what users
can create what news groups. You will need to add a line with a :doit
action for the groups you want to create. Then to actually do it the user
posts a news message with an extra header or two:
Control: newgroup csam.chat.group
Approved: email@address
Adding these headers requires a news client that permits such things.
Now, the thing you need to remember is when you do this, you will
annoy a lot of people, because every news server in the world will
look at this message and either create the group, or email the request
to the local administrator, or throw it away.
To avoid annoying people you need to be sure you are working in a
local hierachy like csam.* And you should try and prevent the messages
leaking out into the real world, to do that add things like
Distribution: local
There is a utility we provide to make this all a little easier, read about
it on:
http://netwinsite.com/dnews/dcontrol.htm
ChrisP
>
> Thank you very much.
