innupgrade - Upgrade INN configuration files

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.

       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.

       innupgrade - Upgrade INN configuration files

-ffile
           Only act on file rather than working on an entire directory.

       -ttype
           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.

incoming.conf(5), inn.conf(5), inn-secrets.conf(5), newsfeeds(5), readers.conf(5).

INN 2.7.3                                          2025-02-21                                      INNUPGRADE(8)

innupgradedirectoryinnupgrade [-ttype] -ffile