07-11-2007
You go into the /var directory. Then you use tar to create a file containing all its contents (tar cvf - .). You then move into /newvar and unpack the file there (cd /newvar;tar xfBp -).
The net effect is that you've copied all of /var into /newvar. Why they wouldn't do that with just cp -R /var /newvar I'm not sure . . . .
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snnewgroup
snnewgroup.v0.3.8(8) System Manager's Manual snnewgroup.v0.3.8(8)
NAME
snnewgroup - create a new sn newsgroup
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.
SEE ALSO
sndelgroup, snsend
N.B. Harold Tay snnewgroup.v0.3.8(8)