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.IX Title "RC.NEWS 8"
.TH RC.NEWS 8 "2022-07-10" "INN 2.7.2" "InterNetNews Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
rc.news \- Start or stop INN daemons
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
\&\fBrc.news\fR [\f(CW\*(C`start\*(C'\fR | \f(CW\*(C`stop\*(C'\fR]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
\&\fBrc.news\fR can be used to start or stop \fBinnd\fR and supporting programs.
It checks to make sure \s-1INN\s0 is not already running, handles cases of
unclean shutdown, finishes up tasks which might have been interrupted by
the preceding shutdown, e\-mails certain boot-time warnings to
\&\fInewsmaster\fR (as set in \fIinn.conf\fR), and is generally safer and easier
than starting and stopping everything directly.  It needs to be run as the
news user so that files in \fIpathrun\fR are created with the right ownership
(though this is less important for \f(CW\*(C`rc.news stop\*(C'\fR).
.PP
Programs run and stopped by this script include:
.IP "\(bu" 4
Always: \fBinnd\fR is started or stopped.
.IP "\(bu" 4
If \fIdoinnwatch\fR is true in \fIinn.conf\fR: \fBinnwatch\fR is started and
stopped.
.IP "\(bu" 4
If \fIdocnfsstat\fR is true in \fIinn.conf\fR: \fBcnfsstat\fR is started and stopped.
.IP "\(bu" 4
If \fIovmethod\fR is set to \f(CW\*(C`ovdb\*(C'\fR in \fIinn.conf\fR: \fBovdb_init\fR is run;
\&\fBovdb_server\fR and \fBovdb_monitor\fR are stopped.
.IP "\(bu" 4
If \fIovmethod\fR is set to \f(CW\*(C`ovsqlite\*(C'\fR in \fIinn.conf\fR: \fBovsqlite-server\fR
is started and stopped.
.IP "\(bu" 4
If \fIrc.news.local\fR exists in \fIpathbin\fR: \fBrc.news.local\fR is run with
argument \f(CW\*(C`start\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`stop\*(C'\fR (to perform site-specific startup or shutdown
tasks).
.IP "\(bu" 4
When started, if \s-1INN\s0 appears to have previously been shut down during
its expiry process, run \fBexpirerm\fR if there are articles to unlink.
.IP "\(bu" 4
When started, if overview data appears to have just been rebuilt and
\&\fIactive\fR needs to be renumbered, then actually renumber it.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
.ie n .IP """start""" 4
.el .IP "\f(CWstart\fR" 4
.IX Item "start"
If the first argument is \f(CW\*(C`start\*(C'\fR, or no first argument is given,
\&\fBrc.news\fR initiates \s-1INN\s0 startup.
.ie n .IP """stop""" 4
.el .IP "\f(CWstop\fR" 4
.IX Item "stop"
If the first argument is \f(CW\*(C`stop\*(C'\fR, \fBrc.news\fR initiates \s-1INN\s0 shutdown.
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.IX Header "EXAMPLES"
To start \s-1INN\s0 and leave certain error messages going to the terminal:
.PP
.Vb 1
\&       su news \-s /bin/sh \-c <pathbin in inn.conf>/rc.news
.Ve
.PP
To run \s-1INN\s0 at startup time from appropriate system boot scripts:
.PP
.Vb 1
\&       su news \-s /bin/sh \-c <pathbin>/rc.news >> <pathlog>/rc.news 2>&1
.Ve
.PP
To stop \s-1INN:\s0
.PP
.Vb 1
\&       su news \-s /bin/sh \-c \*(Aq<pathbin>/rc.news stop\*(Aq
.Ve
.SH "HISTORY"
.IX Header "HISTORY"
This manual page written by Jeffrey M.\ Vinocur <jeff@litech.org> for
InterNetNews.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fBctlinnd\fR\|(8), \fBcnfsstat\fR\|(8), \fBexpirerm\fR\|(8), \fBinn.conf\fR\|(5), \fBinnwatch\fR\|(8), \fBovdb\fR\|(5),
\&\fBovsqlite\fR\|(5).