inncheck - check inn configuration and database files.

NAME

       inncheck - check inn configuration and database files.

SYNOPSIS

       inncheck  [  -a  ]  [ -v ] [ -pedantic ] [ -f ] [ -perm ] [ -noperm ] [
       file=value | file ]

DESCRIPTION

       Inncheck  examines  various  configuration  files  and  databases   and
       verifies  things  about  them. Things verified depend on the file being
       checked, but generally are things like permissions,  ownership,  syntax
       errors in config files, etc.

       Inncheck  does  not make changes to any files — it just reports what it
       thinks may be wrong, and it is up to the operator to fix the problem.

       The set of files checked may be restricted by using file or  file=value
       arguments.   For   example,   putting  incoming.conf  causes  only  the
       incoming.conf       file       to       be        checked.        Using
       incoming.conf=/tmp/incoming.conf   on   the  command  line  will  cause
       inncheck to only verify the incoming.conf file, and it will perform the
       checks  on the file /tmp/incoming.conf file instead of the default one.

       Valid values for file are:

                  active
                  control.ctl
                  expire.ctl
                  incoming.conf
                  inn.conf
                  moderators
                  newsfeeds
                  nntpsend.ctl
                  passwd.nntp
                  readers.conf

OPTIONS

-a If any ‘‘file’’ value or ‘‘file=value’’ pairs (see below) are
given, then normally only the files they refer to are checked.
Use the ‘‘-a’’ flag to specify that all files should be checked
regardless. In this case the form file=value will be the more
useful.

-v Use the ‘‘-v’’ option to get more verbose output.

-pedantic
Use the ‘‘-pedantic’’ option to get reports on things that are
not necessarily wrong, but may indicate a bad configuration —
such as inn.conf missing a key.

-f Use the ‘‘-f’’ flag to have inncheck print the appropriate
chown/chgrp/chmod command necessary to fix a problem that it
reports. Any other output lines will be prefixed with a ‘‘#’’
character to make the output be valid input for a shell. Note
that the ‘‘-perm’’ flag must be used as well when using this
flag.

-perm Inncheck checks all files for permission problems. If the
‘‘-perm’’ flag is used, then only the files specified by the
file or file=value command line arguments will be checked for
problems other than permission problems.

-noperm
To avoid doing any checking of file permissions or ownership,
use the ‘‘-noperm’’ option.

EXAMPLES

       To  have  inncheck  check  all files for syntax and permission problems
       simply:

              inncheck

       To have inncheck check all files for permission problems and to  verify
       the syntax of the active and incoming.conf files do:

              inncheck -perm active incoming.conf

       To  fix  the  permissions  problems  noted  in  the output of the above
       command, modify it as follow:

              inncheck -f -perm | sh

       To   have   inncheck    check    the    test    newsfeeds    file    in
       /var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing, do:

              inncheck newsfeeds=/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing

       To  have  inncheck  check  all  the  files  as it normally does, but to
       specify a different location for the newsfeeds file, so:

              inncheck -a newsfeeds=/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing

BUGS

       If the ‘‘-f’’ and ‘‘-perm’’  options  are  used  together,  along  with
       ‘‘-a’’  or  some  ‘‘file’’  or ‘‘file=value’’ arguments that refer to a
       file with a syntax problem, then the output will  no  longer  be  valid
       input for a shell.

HISTORY

       Written   by   Brendan   Kehoe   <brendan@cygnus.com>   and  Rich  Salz
       <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> This is revision 8409, dated 2009-04-11.