<pathbin>/bin/sm not found?

[Julien Oster]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 10:10:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:


Hello Russ,

> > I'm (now) running INN BETA 20000424 and it works fine. I know it's BETA
> > but till now I was practically almost able to tweak everything fine, if
> > it was ever needed.

> We're very close to a release, so it should be working well.  :)

Oh, now that's really good news :)

> Ah, OpenBSD.  We've seen some weird problems with /bin/sh on OpenBSD.  Try
> replacing /bin/sh at the beginning of the control message handling scripts
> (newgroup, rmgroup, and checkgroups) with /bin/bash instead (which I
> believe OpenBSD has) and see if that works any better.

I already replaced "#!/bin/sh" with "#!/bin/zsh", I'm a zsh fanatic, the
original scripts work fine with it and if I need to tweak them I can use my
favourite shell :)

> Also, you really want to be running controlchan, rather than those old
> control message shell scripts....

I also thought about that, but then I thought that I probably won't need it.
I am currently a de.*/de.alt.*/denet.* only site, and even in de.alt.*
control messages are accepted only from the dana (or some other trustworthy
person) and ideally only after looking at the discussions, CfV results etc.
in the respective newsgroups.

Many (good) Newsmasters _never_ process any control messages automagically,
they let their Newsservers send them a mail and do it manually. For my news-
server, I am only processing PGP-signed control messages from the dana
automagically, everything else is done manually.

And since there's hardly more than one control message per month (except
cancels, which are apparently handled directly by INN) I don't think it
causes any significant load. So I think controlchan would be just another
ressource consuming process (though nobody wouldn't notice, especially on a
typical high-powered Newsserver-Cluster ;-) ) in my system.

However, I might soon choose to get some other (international) hierarchies
feeded, then I'll think about it.

Or you can give me some reasons why I should use controlchan :)

Greetings,
Julien