CONTROLCHAN(8)CONTROLCHAN(8)NAMEcontrolchan - channel-fed control message handler
SYNOPSIScontrolchanDESCRIPTION
Controlchan removes the responsibility for handling con
trol messages (except cancels) from innd(8) and instead
processes them from a channel or file feed. To reduce
load, controlchan keeps a copy of control.ctl(5) in memory
and checks permissions (including any required PGP head
ers) before any scripts are called. Also, the default
(``bad message'') case is handled internally. The
``drop'' case is handled with far less fuss.
Normally, controlchan is configured in newsfeeds(5) and
invoked from innd(8). And you need to set <usecontrolchan
in inn.conf> to ``true''. Controlchan reports all log
message through syslog(3), if possible. To enable sys_
log(3)'ging, you will need to have run ``h2ph'' on your
system include files at some point (this is required to
make ``Sys::Syslog'' work). If you have not done so, do
this:
cd /usr/include
h2ph * sys/*
If you run FreeBSD, you will need to run the following in
addition:
h2ph machine/*
HISTORY
Written by Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou@nec.co.jp> for Inter
NetNews. This is revision 1.2.2.1, dated 2000/08/17.
SEE ALSOcontrol.ctl(5), inn.conf(5).
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