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REPORT(8CN) REPORT(8CN) NAME report - report news problems and status SYNOPSIS ... | /usr/local/libexec/cnews/report [ -u ] subject DESCRIPTION Report is used to report the problems and status of the news system, normally by mail. The subject is a single argument (normally enclosed in quotes) summarizing what the message is about; the message text it- self is supplied to report on standard input. If the message text is empty, report does not send anything. The -u option indicates that the message is urgent, which may affect how it is mailed or to whom. Report consults a control file, /var/lib/news/report.ctl, to determine the destination(s) of mail. The control file is syntactically a shell file, which should assign to the shell variables urgentto and nonur- gentto. The values should be one or more mailing addresses, in what- ever form the local mailer wants, separated by commas (and possibly white space as well). They should not contain material other than ad- dresses, e.g. RFC822 comments containing full names etc. Report is supplied as a central handling facility for error messages and status reports for C News, so that changes and customization in this often-system-specific area can be done in a single program. FILES /var/lib/news/report.ctl SEE ALSO mail(1) HISTORY Written by Henry Spencer for the C News project. BUGS There is too much stupid and unnecessary diversity among mailer user interfaces for a single implementation of report to be entirely satis- factory. In particular, the incantation to send a message which is al- ready equipped with some of its RFC822 headers is very system-specific. The don't-send-empty-messages business is perhaps inelegant, but it turns out to be very convenient. 22 Aug 1994 REPORT(8CN)
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