NFADMIN(8)						      System Manager's Manual							NFADMIN(8)

NAME

       nfadmin - Change the status of a set of Notesfiles

SYNOPSIS

       nfadmin flags topic [ topic ... ]
       nfadmin flags -f listfile

DESCRIPTION

       Nfadmin simplifies the task of displaying and setting director page options of many notesfiles at once.

       The flags specify the status to be changed.

       -a+    Allow anonymous submissions.

       -a-    Disallow anonymous submissions.

       -n+    Allow network transmissions/receptions.

       -n-    Disallow network transmissions/receptions.

       -o+    Open the notesfile.  Allow local access by non-directors (subject to access permissions).

       -o-    Close the notesfile.  Disallow local access by non-directors.

       -A+    Flag  this  notesfile  as  an archive notesfile.	(This does NOT mean that the notesfile will be archived.  You can't archive an ar-
	      chive!)

       -A-    Flag this notesfile as a non-archive notesfile.  This does not affect what happens to notes when they expire.

       -M+    Flag this notesfile as a moderated notesfile.  This causes commands that create new notes or responses to create a mail  message	to
	      the   newsgroup	moderator   instead.	A   list   of  notesfiles  and	the  mail  address  of	the  moderator	is  maintained	in
	      /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/moderators.

       -M-    Flag this notesfile as a non-moderated notesfile.

       -L+    Flag this notesfile as a local notesfile.  Local notesfiles don't ask whether to include a .signature file at the end of a new  note
	      or response.

       -L-    Flag this notesfile as a non-local notesfile.  If the NFSIG environment variable is set, notes will prompt whether or not to include
	      the signature file named by NFSIG at the end of a new note or response.

       -e=NN  Set the expiration time of this notesfile to NN days.  (NN should be replaced with a positive number).

       -e=0   Set the expiration time of this notesfile to DEFAULT.  The number specified on the nfarchive command line will be used to  determine
	      expiration time.	If no time is specified on the nfarchive command line, 14 days is used.

       -e=-1  Set the expiration time of this notesfile to NEVER.

       -W=0   Set the working set size of this notesfile to the command line default.

       -W=NN  Set the working set size of this notesfile to NN.

       -l=NNNNN
	      Set  the maximum note size of an individual note in this notesfile to NNNNN.  (Warning:  negative numbers and numbers under 1000 are
	      a very bad idea here.  The usual notes default of 100000 is too small for sources groups and mod.map.  Please consider  raising  the
	      limit  for  these  groups  to  something	more  reasonable, like 500000 or 2000000.  Also check your parms.h file; notes has a "hard
	      limit", and if you set the maximum size over the hard limit, the hard limit still applies, even though  the  individual  maximum	is
	      still displayed).

       -E=default
	      Set the expiration action of this notesfile to the command line default.

       -E=delete
	      Set the expiration action of this notesfile to DELETE.

       -E=archive
	      Set the expiration action of this notesfile to ARCHIVE

       -D=default
	      Set the director message status of this notesfile to the command line default.

       -D=on  Set the director message status of this notesfile to ON; only notes with the director message ON will be removed by nfarchive.

       -D=off Set the director message status of this notesfile to OFF; only notes with the director message OFF will be removed by nfarchive.

       -D=nocare
	      Set  the	director message status of this notesfile to NOCARE; the director message flag is not used by nfarchive in selecting notes
	      for archive/deletion.

       -f file
	      The file specified in the argument following the -f flag contains a series of lines, each specifying a notesfile or group of  notes-
	      files (wildcard) to be displayed or changed.

       If  no flags are specified (except possibly -f), no changes are made, but the current state of the notesfiles is displayed.  If flag(s) are
       specified, the new state after the changes is displayed, in the following format:

       notesfile title NetW Open Anon Arch WSet Arch. Keep DirM   #	Max
		       -------status------ Size Time  Actn Stat Notes	Size
       net.bugs.2bsd : YES  YES   NO   NO     0   12  ARCH DFLT     3  500000
       net.bugs.4bsd : YES  YES   NO   NO     2   12  ARCH DFLT    26  500000
       net.bugs.usg  : YES  YES   NO   NO     0   12  ARCH DFLT     8  500000
       net.bugs.uucp : YES  YES   NO   NO     0   12  ARCH DFLT     9  500000
       net.bugs.v7   : YES  YES   NO   NO     2   12  ARCH DFLT     1  500000
       nfmaint	     : YES  YES   NO   NO     0 NEVER DEL  DFLT     3  500000
       nfgripes      : YES  YES   NO   NO     0   14  DEL  DFLT     0  500000
       net.micro.6809:	NO  YES   NO   NO     0    1  DEL  DFLT     0  500000
       net.announce  : YES  YES   NO   NO     0 DFLT  ARCH DFLT     0  500000
       (The output has been squished slightly to allow it to fit in the manual page format).

       All users are allowed to run this program.  The changes are only applied to notesfiles for which the executing user is a director.

       This program lives in the notesfile utility directory, typically ``/usr/spool/notes/.utilities''.

EXAMPLES

		 nfadmin -n+ -o+ -a- -e=14 "net.*"
		 nfadmin -o- -f noteslist

       In the first example, all of the net.* notesfiles are set to networked, open, non-anonymous, with an expiration time of 14 days.  The  sec-
       ond example closes access to non-directors for all of the files listed in the file "noteslist".

BUGS

       More parameters ought to be changable with this program.

       Nfadmin	has  not  been	tested	with systems that can have notesfile names longer than 14 characters.  The nfadmin code does not have such
       dependencies except in the output format, but the columns may look ugly.

       Nfadmin will probably stop working when a certain news administrator creates newsgroup names larger than any of the PDP-11 max  data  space
       (64k), the maximum argument/environment to exec (something around 10k), or the total amount of virtual memory on your machine.

FILES

       /usr/spool/notes 		  the default notesfile data base

SEE ALSO

       mknf(8), notes(1), nfcomment(3),
       The Notesfile Reference Manual

AUTHORS

       Gordon Burditt (sneaky!gordon)
       Tandy Systems Design

       created this program using the Notesfiles system by

       Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa)
       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
       Urbana, IL

       as a base.

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