Aucbarpa.561 net.news.b utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:glickman Fri Dec 18 17:04:26 1981 Fascinating Active File Facts Newsgroups ARE checked in order of the active file and reordering of it doesn't hurt a thing. Putting general first and then having an article which doesn't expire for a couple of centuries that describes the system is a good idea. I remove test directories in our spool directory every so often and then regenerate the active file by simply ls(1)'ing into it. This works, but you have to beware that newsgroup names will be truncated to 14 chars. You then have to go through fix up lines like net.sport.foot and fa.unix-wizard. Incidentally, removing a newgroup entry from the active file won't stop news from coming into that group. All inews does to the active file is append to it whenever it has to create a directory. On the other hand (this has been mentioned before, I'm sure), active file entries that don't have corresponding directories cause funny looking .newsrc file entries like "/usr/spool/news/test: 1-2" which enrage users. Matt ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.