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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  prob-
       lem.

       The set of files checked may be restricted by using file or file=value arguments. For example, putting incoming.conf causes only the incom-
       ing.conf file to be checked. Using incoming.conf=/tmp/incoming.conf on the command line will cause  inncheck  to  only  verify  the  incom-
       ing.conf file, and it will perform the checks on the file /tmp/incoming.conf file instead of the default one.

       Valid values for file are:

		  active
		  control.ctl
		  expire.ctl
		  incoming.conf
		  inn.conf
		  moderators
		  newsfeeds
		  nntpsend.ctl
		  passwd.nntp
		  readers.conf

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 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 incoming.conf files do:

	      inncheck -perm active incoming.conf

       To fix the permissions problems noted in the output of the above command, modify it as follow:

	      inncheck -f -perm | sh

       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 8409, dated 2009-04-11.

SEE ALSO

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

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