Leafnode is a USENET package intended for small sites, where there are few
users and little disk space, but where a large number of groups is
desired.
Checkgroups is the program which parses checkgroup scripts to include new/updated
group descriptions into the active file (which is usually
/var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo).
Checkgroups sets its real and effective uid to "news".
OPTIONS
checkgroupsfile
is a file which contains the newsgroup name and the description on one
line, separated by whitespace. Checkgroups scripts are sometimes sent
out by news administrators (e.g. in the bionet.* hierarchy).
ENVIRONMENT
LN_LOCK_TIMEOUT
This variable is parsed as an unsigned integer value and determines how
many seconds checkgroups will wait when trying to obtain the lock file
from another leafnode program. 0 means to wait indefinitely. This
variable takes precedence over the configuration file.
AUTHOR
Written by Cornelius Krasel <krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de>.
Copyright 1997-1999.
Modified by Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>.
Copyright 2002-2004.
Leafnode was originally written by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
and is copyright 1995-96
Troll Tech AS, Postboks 6133 Etterstad, 0602 Oslo, Norway, fax +47
22646949.
