trouble with cleanfeed.conf

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Bill Tangren wrote:

> I am having trouble with cleanfeed.conf. I have a small internal news 
> server (no external feeds). On that server, I have disallowed binaries 
> using this block in cleanfeed.conf:
> 
>     bin_allowed => '^\w+\.binae?r|^alt\.sex\.pictures|^fur\.artwork'.
>       '|^alt\.anonymous\.messages$|^de\.alt\.dateien|^rec\.games\.bolo$'.
>       '|^comp\.security\.pgp\.test$|^sfnet\.tiedostot'.
>       '|^fido\.|^linux\.|^unidata\.'.
>       '|^usno',
> 
> The last line is what I added to disallow binaries on our news groups 

Wait, $bin_allowed is supposed to list the groups in which binaries are 
permitted, as far as I know.  It's strange that you found that that config 
was able to block binaries.  You sure about that?

(By the way, you should add '|^usno\.' to be precise about it, otherwise 
groups like usnofoo.misc would match.  Not likely to be a problem, but 
some day in the future...better safe than sorry.)


> does not allow binaries after restarting the server.

FYI, `ctlinnd reload filter.perl reason-string-here` will work, you don't
need a full restart.



-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org