Manually running a control message

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In nnfolder+Mail:inn-workers, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

> inn2 <inn2 at news.uwa.edu.au> writes:
>> How do I manually execute a control message, this is under 2.3

> Good question.  Is there a way to do this currently in the source tree?  I
> suppose you can just run the old shell version of newgroup by hand, but
> there probably should be an option to controlchan or some part of that
> that lets you run a single control message from a file.

Kinda hokey, but

        echo /path/to/article-file | controlchan
or 
        echo '@token@' | controlchan

should do the trick.  And of course, there is always ctlinnd.