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[Alexander Bartolich]

Julien ÉLIE wrote:
> [...]
> Is it all right to put the result at the beginning of the daily Usenet mail
> report?
> 
>    inncheck -a -pedantic
> 
> should be enough.

The files installed by Debian and Ubuntu packages are owned by root, not news.
This means that user news has no write access to configuration files. I'm not
sure whether that's a deliberate decision by the package maintainer or even
some distribution policy.

Anyway, with a fresh installation of inn2 on Debian or Ubuntu you will get
this output:

# /usr/lib/news/bin/inncheck -a -pedantic
/etc/news/control.ctl:0: owned by root, should be news
/etc/news/control.ctl:0: in group root, should be news
/etc/news/expire.ctl:0: owned by root, should be news
/etc/news/expire.ctl:0: in group root, should be news
/etc/news/incoming.conf:0: owned by root, should be news
/etc/news/incoming.conf:0: in group root, should be news
/etc/news/incoming.conf:0: mode 644, should be 640
/etc/news/inn.conf:0: owned by root, should be news
/etc/news/inn.conf:0: in group root, should be news
/etc/news/moderators:0: owned by root, should be news
/etc/news/moderators:0: in group root, should be news
/etc/news/newsfeeds:0: owned by root, should be news
/etc/news/newsfeeds:0: in group root, should be news
/etc/news/nntpsend.ctl:0: owned by root, should be news
/etc/news/nntpsend.ctl:0: in group root, should be news
/etc/news/overview.fmt:0: owned by root, should be news
/etc/news/overview.fmt:0: in group root, should be news
/etc/news/passwd.nntp:0: owned by root, should be news
/etc/news/readers.conf:0: owned by root, should be news
/etc/news/readers.conf:0: in group root, should be news

I doubt whether it's a good idea to send daily notification
about that.

Ciao

     Alexander.