NAME

cnewsdo - run C News maintenance commands

SYNOPSIS

cnewsdo command [argument ...]

DESCRIPTION

Cnewsdo runs any of the C News maintenance commands (see newsmaint(8CN))—or indeed any command in the normal C News shell search path—after first setting up a suitable PATH and umask, and checking that the commands are being run under the same user id that owns the active file (see newsdb(5)).

This is essentially a convenience, especially for novice news administrators and those who believe there is special virtue in being able to invoke various kinds of administrative functionality through a single command.

SEE ALSO

newsmaint(8CN)

DIAGNOSTICS

``running as `abc', should be running as `def''' means that cnewsdo is being run as abc, but def owns the active file (and therefore, presumably, the rest of the news system).

HISTORY

Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer and Geoff Collyer.

BUGS

Arguably, most any problem addressed by cnewsdo should be addressed by news-administrator education instead.