Hi Nick,
I believe something should be done in the 2.5.3 Debian package:
motd.innd and motd.nnrpd should be installed in the /etc/news
directory!
I would disagree on that one. INN itself does not install them, they are
only there as examples for an admin who wants to use them.
No, INN installs both motd.innd and motd.nnrpd in /etc/news.
Have a look at site/Makefile in the INN upstream package:
PATH_MOTD_INND = ${PATHETC}/motd.innd
PATH_MOTD_NNRPD = ${PATHETC}/motd.nnrpd
Makefile:$D$(PATH_MOTD_INND): motd.innd ; $(COPY_RPUB) $? $@
Makefile:$D$(PATH_MOTD_NNRPD): motd.nnrpd ; $(COPY_RPUB) $? $@
Same thing for innreport.css that is installed in
/usr/share/doc/inn2/examples whereas INN installs it in PATHHTTP
(normally /var/log/news in Debian).
motd.news was properly installed by the Debian package for INN <= 2.5.2
in /etc/news.
Indeed on my own inn2 installation I made /etc/news/motd.news
into an empty file as otherwise trn does display it each time, so some
users definitely do not want the example files installed.
Two different things are mixed here: the news administrator manages his
server the way he wants. It is up to him to configure his news server
(feeds, newsgroups carried, cleanfeed policy, message of the day, etc.).
If a user is disturbed, then he should contact his news administrator to
ask for a change in motd, the same way he would ask him to add
newsgroups, change spam policies, etc.
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Julien ÉLIE
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ajouter, mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer. » (Saint-
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