man cnewsdo () - run C News maintenance commands
NAME
cnewsdo - run C News maintenance commands
SYNOPSIS
cnewsdo command [argument ...]
DESCRIPTION
Cnewsdo runs any of the C News maintenance commands (see newsmaint(8CN))-or indeed any command in the normal C News shell search path-after first setting up a suitable PATH and umask, and checking that the commands are being run under the same user id that owns the active file (see newsdb(5)).
This is essentially a convenience, especially for novice news administrators and those who believe there is special virtue in being able to invoke various kinds of administrative functionality through a single command.
SEE ALSO
DIAGNOSTICS
``running as `abc', should be running as `def''' means that cnewsdo is being run as abc, but def owns the active file (and therefore, presumably, the rest of the news system).
HISTORY
Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer and Geoff Collyer.
BUGS
Arguably, most any problem addressed by cnewsdo should be addressed by news-administrator education instead.