innupgrade - Upgrade INN configuration files
innupgrade directory
innupgrade [-t type] -f
file
innupgrade is intended to be run during a major upgrade of
INN to fix the configuration files with any required changes. If given a
directory, it will scan that directory for any files that it has updates
defined for, try to perform those updates, and replace the files with
updated versions if applying the updates resulted in any changes. The old
versions of the files will be saved with a
".OLD" extension.
If the -f flag is used, only that file will be updated. If
the file name doesn't match the standard file name of an INN configuration
file, the optional -t flag may be given to specify the type. See
"EXAMPLES" for an example of this.
Currently, innupgrade knows how to apply the following
updates:
- incoming.conf
- Rename nolist and noresendid to respectively list and
resendid. Invert the related boolean values (since
INN 2.7).
- Comment removed comment and email parameters (since
INN 2.7).
- inn.conf
- Quote values with whitespace and comment out keys with no values, required
for the change in configuration parsers introduced in INN 2.4. The
new format is not backward compatible with the previous parser, since the
previous parser will include the double-quotes in the value of the
parameter.
- Add the hismethod parameter if not found (introduced in
INN 2.4, with the default value
"hisv6").
- Rename nntpactsync to incominglogfrequency (since
INN 2.5). Rename addnntppostingdate and
addnntppostinghost to respectively addinjectiondate and
addinjectionpostinghost (since INN 2.6).
- Remove the refusecybercancels and verifycancels parameters
(since INN 2.7).
- If the overview.fmt file exists, its content is merged in the
extraoverviewadvertised and extraoverviewhidden parameters
introduced in INN 2.5. The file is then renamed to
overview.fmt.OLD.
- If the sasl.conf file exists, its content is merged in the
tlscapath, tlscafile, tlscertfile and
tlskeyfile parameters introduced in INN 2.5. The file is
then renamed to sasl.conf.OLD.
- inn-secrets.conf
- •
- Create a non-world-readable inn-secrets.conf file in
pathetc, if not already existing (new in INN 2.7).
- newsfeeds
- Replace the use of startinnfeed with the appropriate direct
invocation of innfeed or imapfeed (startinnfeed was
removed in INN 2.5).
- Replace the use of filechan with buffchan in unbuffered mode
(filechan was removed in INN 2.7).
- readers.conf
- •
- Rename require_ssl to require_encryption (since
INN 2.7).
A few obsolete programs or configuration files are renamed with a
".OLD" extension by innupgrade.
Obsolete man pages are directly removed.
Normally, innupgrade should be run at least on the
pathetc directory after any upgrade of INN other than a patch release
(any upgrade that changes the first or second version numbers). This may
occur automatically during the upgrade process.
- -f file
- Only act on file rather than working on an entire directory.
- -t type
- For a file specified with -f, parse it and upgrade it as if it were
named type. Used for upgrading files with the same syntax as normal
INN configuration files but with different names. Only makes sense in
combination with -f.
Upgrade any configuration files found in pathetc and append
a ".OLD" extension to obsolete files in
pathetc:
innupgrade <pathetc in inn.conf>
Upgrade only /news/etc/inn.conf:
innupgrade -f /news/etc/inn.conf
Upgrade a file named inn-special.conf that should have the
same syntax as inn.conf:
innupgrade -t inn.conf -f inn-special.conf
Any upgrade rules that apply to inn.conf will be applied to
the alternate file.
Written by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> for
InterNetNews.
incoming.conf(5), inn.conf(5), inn-secrets.conf(5), newsfeeds(5),
readers.conf(5).