access: in readers.conf

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sun Jan 12 05:37:15 UTC 2003


Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Well, the newnews one is already weird, since allownewnews is already
>> an inn.conf parameter and a readers.conf parameter in its own right,
>> but access overrides it.

> That's the problem -- it isn't a readers.conf parameter at all.

Isn't it?  Oh, yeah, it isn't.  Okay, that's weird.

> Heh, true.  I guess defaulting to false would make sense for that one,
> especially since a default can be set at the top of readers.conf and
> inherit through.

Does that work currently?  I know it will work with the new parser, but I
can't ever remember how well readers.conf inherits parameters at present.

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