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 syslog(3)'ging, 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/*

If you run FreeBSD, you will need to run the following in addition:

h2ph machine/*

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

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