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 channel 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 syslogging, 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/*

HISTORY
Written by Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou@nec.co.jp> for InterNetNews.

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