STR #22

Status: 5 - New

Priority: 1 - Request for Enhancement, e.g. asking for a feature

Scope: 3 - Applies to all machines and operating systems

Subsystem: Unassigned

Summary: Default options for new groups

Version: 2.0-feature

Created By: AdminTreenet

Assigned To: Unassigned

Fix Version: Unassigned

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AdminTreenet
06:19 Jun 15, 2006 At present there is no (at least documented) method of altering the defaults offered when creating a new group. Allowing some defaults for the .conf file to be specified, perhapse in the newsd.conf would be very helpful for admin wanting or needing to enforce uniform settings across a number of groups.

erco
10:20 Jun 15, 2006 I'd considered other alternatives such as templates, but templates don't allow for logic, and are not all the flexible. Plus you have to come up with a variable syntax, etc.. yuck. Maybe the easiest way to make this flexible is to make newsd.conf option that allows one to specify a 'post filter' script that 'newsd -newgroup' invokes after it creates a new group, passing the script the new groupname and group dir as arguments, eg. ---- # NewGroup.Script # This script will be called immediately after 'newsd -newgroup' # creates a new group, so local defaults can be applied. # New group's name and path will be passed as arguments. # # NewGroup.Script "/path/to/my/script" NewGroup.Script "-" ---- Then you can implement whatever local logic you want to alter the existing .config file, create new default messages (ie. 'rules of posting'), etc. A simple example could be included in the docs, eg: ---- #!/bin/sh # newgroup-defaults - Sample newsd 'NewGroup.Script' groupname = $1 groupdir = $2 # Always cc the archive, force post limit to 1000 echo 'ccpost news_archive@localhost' >> $groupdir/.config # Force post limit to 4096 (echo '%s/postlimit.*/postlimit 4096/'; echo wq) | ex $groupdir/.config ----

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