Newsrequeue
can be used to rewrite batchfiles after a system crash.
It operates in two modes.
In the first mode, it first reads the
active (5)
and
newsfeeds (5)
files to determine where the different newsgroups are to be distributed.
It then opens the
history
database.
Once the files are opened,
newsrequeue
reads from the specified
input
file, or standard input if no file is specified.
Each line should have a single Message-ID, surrounded in angle brackets;
any other text on the line is ignored.
For example, the history file (or trailing subset of it) is acceptable
input to the program operating in this mode.
Newsrequeue
uses the first two fields of the
newsfeed
entry the sitename and the excludes field, and the patterns and
distribs field (except for ``@'').
It ignores all flags in the third field except for the ``N'' field, and
also ignores the fourth field altogether.
The output of
newsrequeue
consists of one line for each article that should be forwarded.
Each such line contains the Message-ID, the filename, and the list of
sites that should receive the article.
The output is suitable for piping into
filechan (8).
The second mode is used if the ``-l'' flag is given.
In this mode, it reads from the specified
input
file, or standard input if no file is specified.
Each line should look like an
innd
log entry.
It parses entries for accepted articles, looks up the Message-ID in the
history database to get the filename, and then scans the list of
sites.
If ``storageapi'' in
inn.conf (5)
is turnd on,
newsrequeue
always runs this mode regardless of ``-l'' flag.