SYNOPSIS
snnewgroup newsgroup [server] [port]DESCRIPTION
snnewgroup creates newsgroup assigning it an upstream NNTP server of server:port. If port is not specified, defaults to 119. If server is also not specified, newsgroup is created as a local group which is fed only by articles POSTed to it.You will need to be root or own /var/spool/sn in order to add new groups.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
- SNROOT
-
If this is set and is not empty, the value is used in place of
/var/spool/sn,
the default news spool directory.
FILES CREATED
- /var/spool/sn/newsgroup
-
Directory where articles will be stored.
- /var/spool/sn/newsgroup/.created
-
Empty file for the newsgroup creation time.
- /var/spool/sn/newsgroup/.serial
-
Where
snget
gets its idea of the new starting serial number for
newsgroup
on server
server:port.
The value is initialized to 0.
- /var/spool/sn/newsgroup/.outgoing
-
If
server
is specified, is a symlink to
/var/spool/sn/.outgoing/server:port,
which is a directory, created if it does not already exist.
If
server
is not specified, no file
/var/spool/sn/newsgroup/.outgoing
will be created. See also
snsend.