debian man page for checkgroups

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

NAME
       checkgroups - update group descriptions

SYNOPSIS
       checkgroups checkgroupsfile

DESCRIPTION
       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 some-
	      times 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.

SEE ALSO
       leafnode(8), texpire(8), RFC 977.

leafnode							      1.11.8							    checkgroups(8)