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ACTIVE(5)


NAME

  active, active.times - list of active Usenet newsgroups


DESCRIPTION

  The file <pathdb in inn.conf>/active lists the newsgroups that the local
  site receives.  Each newsgroup should be listed only once.  Each line
  specifies one group; their order in the file does not matter.	 Within each
  newsgroup, articles are assigned unique names, which are monotonically
  increasing numbers.

  If an article is posted to newsgroups not mentioned in this file, those
  newsgroups are ignored.  If no valid newsgroups are specified, the article
  is either filed into the newsgroup ``junk'' and only propagated to sites
  that receive the ``junk'' newsgroup if ``wanttrash'' option in inn.conf(5)
  is true.  Or it is ignored completely.

  Each line consists of four fields specified by a space:

	       name himark lomark flag

  The first field is the name of the newsgroup.	 If <mergetogroups in
  inn.conf> is ``true'', newsgroups that start with the three characters
  ``to.'' are treated specially; see innd(8).  The second field is the
  highest article number that has been used in that newsgroup.	The third
  field is the lowest article number in the group; this number is not
  guaranteed to be accurate, and should only be taken to be a hint.  Note
  that because of article cancellations, there may be gaps in the numbering
  sequence.  If the lowest article number is greater then the highest article
  number, then there are no articles in the newsgroup.	In order to make it
  possible to update an entry in-place without rewriting the entire file, the
  second and third fields are padded out with leading zeros to make them a
  fixed width.

  The fourth field can contain one of the following flags:

       y	Local postings are allowed
       n	No local postings are allowed, only remote ones
       m	The group is moderated and all postings must be approved
       j	Articles in this group are not kept, but only passed on
       x	Articles cannot be posted to this newsgroup
       =foo.bar Articles are locally filed into the ``foo.bar'' group

  If a newsgroup has the ``j'' flag, then no articles will be filed into that
  newsgroup and local postings to that group should not be generated.  If an
  article for such a newsgroup is received from a remote site, it will be
  filed into the ``junk'' newsgroup if it is not cross-posted.	This is
  different from not having a newsgroup listed in the file because sites can
  subscribe to ``j'' newsgroups and the article will be propagated to them.

  If the fourth field of a newsgroup starts with an equal sign, then the
  newsgroup is an alias.  Articles can not be posted to the group, but can be
  received to that group and treated as if they were received to the group
  named after the equal sign.  The second and third fields are ignored.	 Note
  that the Newsgroup header is not modified (Alias groups are typically used
  during a transition, and are typically created with ctlinnd(8)).  An alias
  newsgroup should not point to another alias.

  The file <pathdb in inn.conf>/active.times provides a chronological record
  of when newsgroups are created.  This file is normally updated by innd(8)
  whenever a ctlinnd ``newgroup'' command is done.  Each line consist of
  three fields:

       name time creator

  The first field is the name of the newsgroup.	 The second field is the time
  it was created, expressed as the number of seconds since the epoch - i.e.,
  a time_t; see gettimeofday(2).  The third field is the electronic mail
  address of the person who created the group.


HISTORY

  Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is
  revision 1.8.4.2, dated 2000/08/24.


SEE ALSO

  ctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innd(8).

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