Deleting Newsgroups

It might become necessary to remove access to an inappropriate or offensive newsgroup. This document goes over the basics of removing newsgroups from the news server

To eliminate one newsgroup at a time:

1. Log in to titania.pps.pgh.pa.us
2. Type sudo /usr/news/bin/stlinnd rmgroup news.group.name

If you want to eliminate a list of groups this process can be automated

Create a text file (called foo.bar for example) with a list of the news groups to be removed and then type the following.

1. exec bash
2. for f in `cat foo.bar`; do
   sudo /usr/news/bin/ctlinnd rmgroup $f
   

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Revision 1.0: May 7, 1996:CJR