INNCHECK(8) InterNetNews Documentation INNCHECK(8)NAMEinncheck - Check INN configuration and database files
SYNOPSISinncheck [-afqv] [--noperm | --perm] [--pedantic] [file | file=path
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DESCRIPTIONinncheck examines various configuration files and databases and
verifies things about them. Things verified depend on the file being
checked, but generally are things like permissions, ownership, syntax
errors in config files, etc.
inncheck does not make changes to any files -- it just reports what it
thinks may be wrong, and it is up to the operator to fix the problem
The set of files checked may be restricted by using file or file=path
arguments. For example, putting "incoming.conf" causes only the
incoming.conf file to be checked. Using
"incoming.conf=/tmp/incoming.conf" on the command line will cause
inncheck to only verify the incoming.conf file, and it will perform the
checks on the /tmp/incoming.conf file instead of the default one.
Setting a file path to an empty value like "incoming.conf=" will skip
the check for that file (this only makes sense with -a, or no files
will be checked at all).
Valid values for file are:
active
control.ctl
control.ctl.local
expire.ctl
incoming.conf
inn.conf
innfeed.conf
moderators
newsfeeds
nntpsend.ctl
passwd.nntp
readers.conf
storage.conf
OPTIONS-a, --all
If any file value or file=path pairs (see below) are given, then
normally only the files they refer to are checked. Use the -a (or
--all) flag to specify that all files should be checked regardless.
In this case the form file=path will be the more useful.
-f, --fix
Use the -f flag (or --fix) to have inncheck print the appropriate
chown/chgrp/chmod command necessary to fix a problem that it
reports. Any other output lines will be prefixed with a hash sign
("#") to make the output be valid input for a shell. Note that the
--perm flag must be used as well when using this flag.
--noperm
To avoid doing any checking of file permissions or ownership, use
the --noperm option.
--pedantic
Use the --pedantic option to get reports on things that are not
necessarily wrong, but may indicate a bad configuration, such as
inn.conf missing a key.
--perm
inncheck checks all files for permission problems. If the --perm
flag is used, then only the files specified by the file or
file=path command line arguments will be checked for problems other
than permission problems.
-q, --quiet
Use the -q option (or --quiet) to get less output.
-v, --verbose
Use the -v option (or --verbose) to get more verbose output.
EXAMPLES
To have inncheck check all files for syntax and permission problems
simply run:
inncheck
It is recommended to run the following command to be aware of all the
potential problems inncheck can detect:
inncheck-a --perm --pedantic
To have inncheck check all files for permission problems and to verify
the syntax of the active and incoming.conf files, do:
inncheck--perm active incoming.conf
To fix the permissions problems noted in the output of the above
command, modify it as follows:
inncheck-f --perm | sh
(Note that it is useless to mention the name of the two files since
permission problems are checked on all files.)
To have inncheck check the test newsfeeds file in
/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing, do:
inncheck newsfeeds=/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing
To have inncheck check all the files as it normally does, but to
specify a different location for the newsfeeds file and omit checking
of the innfeed.conf file, do:
inncheck-a newsfeeds=/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing innfeed.conf=
BUGS
If the -f and --perm options are used together, along with -a or some
file or file=path arguments that refer to a file with a syntax problem,
then the output will no longer be valid input for a shell.
In most cases, inncheck currently does not correctly understand option
values spanning multiple lines. If you get error messages about
runaway quotes, you either have to ignore them and check the
correctness of the relevant lines yourself, or merge the value into a
single line.
HISTORY
Written by Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cygnus.com> and Rich Salz
<rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. Converted to POD by Julien
Elie.
$Id: inncheck.pod 9429 2012-06-15 18:21:26Z iulius $
SEE ALSOactive(5), control.ctl(5), expire.ctl(5), history(5), incoming.conf(5),
inn.conf(5), innfeed.conf(5), moderators(5), newsfeeds(5),
nntpsend.ctl(5), passwd.nntp(5), readers.conf(5), storage.conf(5).
INN 2.5.3 2012-06-15 INNCHECK(8)
