NAME

       inncheck - check inn configuration and database files.

SYNOPSIS

       inncheck [ -a ] [ -v ] [ -pedantic ] [ -f ] [ -perm ] [ -noperm ] [ file=value | file ]

DESCRIPTION

       Inncheck  examines  various  configuration  files  and  databases  and verifies things about them. Things
       verified depend on the file being checked, but generally are things like permissions,  ownership,  syntax
       errors in config files etc.

       Inncheck  does  not make changes to any files — it just reports what it thinks may be wrong, and it is up
       to the operator to fix the problem.

       The set of files checked may be restricted by using file or file=value arguments.  For  example,  putting
       hosts.nntp  causes only the hosts.nntp(5) file to be checked. Using hosts.nntp=/tmp/hosts.nntp.tst on the
       command line will cause inncheck to only verify the hosts.nntp file, and it will perform  the  checks  on
       the file /tmp/hosts.nntp file instead of the default one.

       Valid values for file are:

                  active
                  control.ctl
                  expire.ctl
                  hosts.nntp
                  inn.conf
                  moderators
                  newsfeeds
                  overview.fmt
                  nnrp.access
                  nntpsend.ctl
                  passwd.nntp

OPTIONS

       -a     If  any ``file'' value or ``file=value'' pairs (see below) are given, then normally only the files
              they refer to are checked. Use the ``-a'' flag  to  specify  that  all  files  should  be  checked
              regardless. In this case the form file=value will be the more useful.

       -v     Use the ``-v'' option to get more verbose output.

       -pedantic
              Use  the  ``-pedantic  option  to  get  reports  on things that are not necessarily wrong, but may
              indicate a bad configuration — such as inn.conf(5) missing a key.

       -f     Use the ``-f'' flag to have inncheck print the appropriate chown/chgrp/chmod command necessary  to
              fix  a problem that it reports.  Any other output lines will be prefixed with a ``#'' character to
              make the output be valid input for a shell.  Note that the ``-perm'' flag must  be  used  as  well
              when using this flag.

       -perm  Inncheck  checks  all files for permission problems.  If the ``-perm'' flag is used, then only the
              files specified by the file or file=value command line arguments  will  be  checked  for  problems
              other than permission problems.

       -noperm
              To avoid doing any checking of file permissions or ownership, use the ``-noperm'' option.

EXAMPLES

       To have inncheck check all files for syntax and permission problems simply:

              inncheck

       To  have  inncheck  check  all  files  for permission problems and to verify the syntax of the active and
       hosts.nntp files do:

              inncheck -perm active hosts.nntp

       To have inncheck check the test newsfeeds file in /var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing, do:

              inncheck newsfeeds=/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing

       To have inncheck check all the files as it normally does, but to specify a  different  location  for  the
       newsfeeds file, so:

              inncheck -a newsfeeds=/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing

BUGS

       If  the  ``-f'' and ``-perm'' options are used together, along with -a or some ``file'' or ``file=value''
       arguments that refer to a file with a syntax problem, then the output will no longer be valid input for a
       shell.

HISTORY

       Written by Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cygnus.com> and Rich Salz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> This  is  revision  1.1,
       dated 1996/10/29.

SEE ALSO

       active(5), expire.ctl(5), history(5), hosts.nntp(5), inn.conf(5), newsfeeds(5)

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