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1.1     ! root        1: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> No software in the NNTP 1.4 package
        !             2: >> NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE >> uses the NEWGROUPS command.  As a result,
        !             3: >> NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE >> mkgrdates is no longer supported, but is
        !             4: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> included for completeness.
        !             5: 
        !             6:      Mkgrdates is run by cron periodically (say, every 6 or 12 hours --
        !             7: it's up to you).  All it does is produce a cronologically ordered list
        !             8: of newsgroups in the active file, along with their dates of creation.
        !             9: It tries to be intelligent, and if the active file hasn't changed since
        !            10: it was last run, it simply exits.
        !            11: 
        !            12:      So, you'll need to put "mkgrdates" in /usr/lib/crontab to
        !            13: be run periodically.  Every day is probably good enough.
        !            14: 
        !            15:      Some things you might want to be aware of are that it creates
        !            16: and updates the files STAT_FILE and NGDATE_FILE, defined in
        !            17: ../common/conf.h.  It's up to you to define these constants to suit
        !            18: your system.
        !            19: 
        !            20:      The file "access_file" is the file which tells the news server
        !            21: which hosts can read, which can post, and which can transfer.
        !            22: This file wants to be installed wherever ACCESS_FILE in ../common/conf.h
        !            23: says it should be (you can configure this to suit you).  Remember
        !            24: that this should be readable by whatever uid the news server runs
        !            25: as.  Further, remember that the entry "default" must be first in
        !            26: the table.
        !            27: 
        !            28:      >>> The access file will support subnets iff you have <<<
        !            29:      >>> defined SUBNET when you made the server.         <<<
        !            30: 
        !            31:      Finally, edit Makefile to reflect DESTDIR -- where you want
        !            32: the binary to be installed for mkgrdates.
        !            33: 
        !            34:      If you're having the nntp server log copious info, you will
        !            35: probably want to run the stat package developed by Erik Fair.
        !            36: Once a week you should have crontab do
        !            37: 
        !            38:        awk -f nntp_awk nntplog.old >& nntp_report
        !            39: 
        !            40: where "nntplog.old" is the last week's nntp log file produced
        !            41: by syslog.  Any errors which it cannot resolve are placed
        !            42: in the front of the report.

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