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NAME
       inncheck - Check INN configuration and database files

SYNOPSIS
       inncheck [-afqv] [--noperm | --perm] [--pedantic] [file | file=path
       ...]

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=path
       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 /tmp/incoming.conf file instead of the default one.
       Setting a file path to an empty value like "incoming.conf=" will skip
       the check for that file (this only makes sense with -a, or no files
       will be checked at all).

       Valid values for file are:

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

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

       -f, --fix
           Use the -f flag (or --fix) 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 hash sign
           ("#") to make the output be valid input for a shell.  Note that the
           --perm flag must be used as well when using this flag.

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

       --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.

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

       -q, --quiet
           Use the -q option (or --quiet) to get less output.

       -v, --verbose
           Use the -v option (or --verbose) to get more verbose output.

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

           inncheck

       It is recommended to run the following command to be aware of all the
       potential problems inncheck can detect:

           inncheck -a --perm --pedantic

       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 follows:

           inncheck -f --perm | sh

       (Note that it is useless to mention the name of the two files since
       permission problems are checked on all files.)

       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 and omit checking
       of the innfeed.conf file, do:

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

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

       In most cases, inncheck currently does not correctly understand option
       values spanning multiple lines.  If you get error messages about
       runaway quotes, you either have to ignore them and check the
       correctness of the relevant lines yourself, or merge the value into a
       single line.

HISTORY
       Written by Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cygnus.com> and Rich Salz
       <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  Converted to POD by Julien
       Elie.

       $Id: inncheck.pod 9428 2012-06-15 18:18:45Z iulius $

SEE ALSO
       active(5), control.ctl(5), expire.ctl(5), history(5), incoming.conf(5),
       inn.conf(5), innfeed.conf(5), moderators(5), newsfeeds(5),
       nntpsend.ctl(5), passwd.nntp(5), readers.conf(5), storage.conf(5).

INN 2.6.4                         2015-09-20                       INNCHECK(8)