=head1 NAME

active.times - List of local creation times of newsgroups

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The file I<pathdb>/active.times provides a chronological record of when
newsgruops were created on the local server.  This file is normally
updated by B<innd> whenever a newgroup control message is processed or a
C<ctlinnd newgroup> command is issued, and is used by B<nnrpd> to answer
NEWGROUPS requests.

Each line consists of three fields:

    <name> <time> <creator>

The first field is the name of the newsgroup.  The second field is the
time it was created, expressed as the number of seconds since the epoch.
The third field is the e-mail addrses of the person who created the group,
as specified in the control message or on the B<ctlinnd> command line, or
the newsmaster specified at configure time if no creator argument was
given to B<ctlinnd>.

=head1 HISTORY

Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  Converted to
POD by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>

$Id: active.times.pod 6282 2003-04-06 21:50:07Z rra $

=head1 SEE ALSO

active(5), ctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innd(8), nnrpd(8)

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