CTLINND (8)
control the InterNetNews daemon
SYNOPSIS
ctlinnd
[
-h
]
[
-s
]
[
-t timeout
]
command
[
argument...
]
DESCRIPTION
Ctlinnd
sends a message to the control channel of
innd (8),
the InterNetNews server.
In the normal mode of behavior, the message is sent to the server, which
then performs the requested action and sends back a reply with a text
message and the exit code for
ctlinnd .
If the server successfully performed the command,
ctlinnd
will exit with a status of zero and print the reply on standard output.
If the server could not perform the command (for example, it was told to
remove a newsgroup that does not exist), it will direct
ctlinnd
to exit with a status of one.
The ``shutdown,'' ``xabort,'' and ``xexec'' commands do not generate a reply;
ctlinnd
will always exit silently with a status of zero.
OPTIONS
-s
If the ``-s'' flag is
used, then no message will be printed if the command was successful.
-t
The ``-t'' flag can be used to specify how long to wait for the reply
from the server.
The timeout value specifies the number of seconds to wait.
A value of zero waits forever, and a value less
than zero indicates that no reply is needed.
When waiting for a reply,
ctlinnd
will try every two minutes to see if the server is still running, so it
is unlikely that ``-t0'' will hang.
The default is set as
<CTLINND_TIMEOUT in config.data>
(typically
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