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CONTROLCHAN(8)


NAME

  controlchan - channel-fed control message handler


SYNOPSIS

  controlchan


DESCRIPTION

  Controlchan removes the responsibility for handling control messages
  (except cancels) from innd(8) and instead processes them from a channel or
  file feed.  To reduce load, controlchan keeps a copy of control.ctl(5) in
  memory and checks permissions (including any required PGP headers) before
  any scripts are called.  Also, the default (``bad message'') case is
  handled internally.  The ``drop'' case is handled with far less fuss.

  Normally, controlchan is configured in newsfeeds(5) and invoked from
  innd(8).  And you need to set <usecontrolchan in inn.conf> to ``true''.
  Controlchan reports all log message through syslog(3), if possible.  To
  enable syslog(3)'ging, you will need to have run ``h2ph'' on your system
  include files at some point (this is required to make ``Sys::Syslog''
  work).  If you have not done so, do this:

       cd /usr/include
       h2ph * sys/*

  If you run FreeBSD, you will need to run the following in addition:

       h2ph machine/*


HISTORY

  Written by Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou@nec.co.jp> for InterNetNews.  This is
  revision 1.2.2.1, dated 2000/08/17.


SEE ALSO

  control.ctl(5), inn.conf(5).

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