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                      2:      Mkgrdates is run by cron periodically (say, every 6 or 12 hours --
                      3: it's up to you).  All it does is produce a cronologically ordered list
                      4: of newsgroups in the active file, along with their dates of creation.
                      5: It tries to be intelligent, and if the active file hasn't changed since
                      6: it was last run, it simply exits.
                      7: 
                      8:      So, you'll need to put "mkgrdates" in /usr/lib/crontab to
                      9: be run periodically.  Every day is probably good enough.
                     10: 
                     11:      Some things you might want to be aware of are that it creates
                     12: and updates the files STAT_FILE and NGDATE_FILE, defined in
                     13: ../common/conf.h.  It's up to you to define these constants to suit
                     14: your system.
                     15: 
                     16:      The file "access_file" is the file which tells the news server
                     17: which hosts can read, which can post, and which can transfer.
                     18: This file wants to be installed wherever ACCESS_FILE in ../common/conf.h
                     19: says it should be (you can configure this to suit you).  Remember
                     20: that this should be readable by whatever uid the news server runs
                     21: as.  Further, remember that the entry "default" must be first in
                     22: the table.
                     23: 
                     24:      >>> The access file does not support subnets.  Only class
                     25:      >>> A, B, and C networks, as well as hosts.
                     26:      >>> Look for a subnet supporting release eventually.
                     27: 
                     28:      Finally, edit Makefile to reflect DESTDIR -- where you want
                     29: the binary to be installed for mkgrdates.

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