ARCHIVE (8)
Usenet article archiver
SYNOPSIS
archive
[
-a archive
]
[
-f
]
[
-i index
]
[
-m
]
[
-r
]
[
input
]
DESCRIPTION
Archive
makes copies of files specified on its standard input.
It is normally run either as a channel feed under
innd (8),
or by a script before
expire (8)
is run.
Archive
reads the named
input
file, or standard input if no file is given.
The input is taken as a set of lines.
Blank lines and lines starting with a number sign (``#'') are ignored.
All other lines should specify the name of a file to archive.
If a filename is not an absolute pathname, it is taken to be relative to
<patharticles\ in\ inn.conf> .
Files are copied to a directory within the archive directory,
<patharchive\ in\ inn.conf> .
The default is to create a hierarchy that mimics the input files;
intermediate directories will be created as needed.
For example, the input file
comp/sources/unix/2211
(article 2211 in the newsgroup comp.sources.unix) will be copied to
<patharchive\ in\ inn.conf>/comp/sources/unix/2211 .)
OPTIONS
-a archive
If the ``-a'' flag is used then its argument specifies the directory to
archive in instead of the default.
-f
If the ``-f'' flag is used, then all directory names will be
flattened out, replacing the slashes with periods.
In this case, the file would be copied to
<patharchive\ in\ inn.conf>/comp.sources.unix/2211 .)
-i
If the ``-i'' flag is used, then
archive
will append one line to the specified
index
file for each article that it copies.
This line will contain the destination name and the Message-ID and
Subject headers.
-m
Files are copied by making a link.
If that fails a new file is created.
If
<$ac_cv_func_symlink in config.cache>
is ``yes'', and the ``-m'' flag is used, then the file will be copied to the
destination, and the input file will be replaced with a symbolic
link pointing to the new file.
If
<$ac_cv_func_symlink in config.cache>
is ``no'',
The ``-m'' flag is ignored.
-r
By default,
archive
sets its standard error to
<pathlog\ in\ inn.conf>/errlog .
To suppress this redirection, use the ``-r'' flag.
EXIT STATUS
If the input is exhausted,
archive
will exit with a zero status.
If an I/O error occures, it will try to spool its input, copying it to a file.
If there was no input filename, the standard input will be copied to
<pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/archive
and the program will exit.
If an input filename was given, a temporary file named
input .bch
(if
input
is an absolute pathname)
or
<pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/input.bch
(if the filename does not begin with a slash) is created.
Once the input is copied,
archive
will try to rename this temporary file to be the name of the input file,
and then exit.
EXAMPLES
A typical
newsfeeds (5)
entry to archive most source newsgroups is as follows:
source-archive\e
:!*,*sources*,!*wanted*,!*.d\e
:Tc,Wn\e
:<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/archive -f -i \e
<patharchive in inn.conf>/INDEX
HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.
R$
This is revision \\$3, dated \\$4.
$Id: archive.8,v 1.1.2.1 1999/06/12 08:22:17 kondou Exp $
SEE ALSO
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