redhat man page for controlchan

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

NAME
       controlchan - channel-fed control message handler

SYNOPSIS
       controlchan

DESCRIPTION
       Controlchan  removes the responsibility for handling control messages (except cancels) from innd(8) and instead processes them from a chan-
       nel or file feed.  To reduce load, controlchan keeps a copy of control.ctl(5) in memory and checks permissions (including any required  PGP
       headers) before any scripts are called.	Also, the default (``bad message'') case is handled internally.  The ``drop'' case is handled with
       far less fuss.

       Normally, controlchan is configured in newsfeeds(5) and invoked from innd(8).   And  you  need  to  set	<usecontrolchan  in  inn.conf>	to
       ``true''.   Controlchan	reports  all  log  message  through  syslog(3),  if possible.  To enable syslog(3)'ging, you will need to have run
       ``h2ph'' on your system include files at some point (this is required to make ``Sys::Syslog'' work).  If you have not done so, do this:

	    cd /usr/include
	    h2ph * sys/*

       If you run FreeBSD, you will need to run the following in addition:

	    h2ph machine/*

HISTORY
       Written by Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou@nec.co.jp> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.2.2.1, dated 2000/08/17.

SEE ALSO
       control.ctl(5), inn.conf(5).

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