NNTPSEND (8)
send Usenet articles to remote site
SYNOPSIS
nntpsend
[
-a
]
[
-c
]
[
-d
]
[
-D
]
[
-p
]
[
-r
]
[
-S
]
[
-n
]
[
-s size
]
[
-t timeout
]
[
-T timelimit
]
[
-P portnum
]
[
sitename
fqdn
] ...
DESCRIPTION
Nntpsend
is a front-end that invokes
innxmit (1)
to send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP site.
The sites to be fed may be specified by giving
sitename
fqdn
pairs on the command line.
If no such pairs are given,
nntpsend
defaults to the information given in the
nntpsend.ctl (5)
config file.
The
sitename
should be the name of the site as specified in the
newsfeeds (5)
file.
The
fqdn
should be the hostname or IP address of the remote site.
An
innxmit
is launched for sites with queued news.
All
innxmit
processes are spawned in the background and the script waits for
them all to finish before returning.
Output is sent to the file
<pathlog\ in\ inn.conf>/nntpsend.log .
In order to keep from overwhelming the local system,
nntpsend
waits five seconds before spawned each child.
Nntpsend
expects that the batchfile for a site is named
<pathoutgoing\ in\ inn.conf>/sitename .
To prevent batchfile corruption,
shlock (1)
is used to ``lock'' these files.
When
sitename
fqdn
pairs are given on the command line,
any flags given on the command completely describe how
innxmit
and
shrinkfile
operate.
When no such pairs are given on the command line, then
the information found in
nntpsend.ctl
becomes the default flags for that site.
Any flags given on the command line override the default flags
for the site.
OPTIONS
-d -D
The ``-d'' flag causes
nntpsend
to send output to stdout rather than the log file
<pathlog\ in\ inn.conf>/nntpsend.log .
The ``-D'' flag does the same
and it passes ``-d'' to all
innxmit
invocations which in turn causes
innxmit
to go into debug mode.
-s
If the ``-s'' flag is used, then
shrinkfile (1)
will be invoked to perform a head truncation on the batchfile and the flag
will be passed to it.
-a -p -r -S -t -T -c -P
The ``-a'', ``-c'', ``-p'', ``-P'', ``-r'',
\``-S'', ``-t'', ``-T'', ``-c'', and ``-P''
flags are passed on to the
child
innxmit
program. See
innxmit (8)
for more details.
Note that if the ``-p'' flag is used then no connection is made and
no articles are fed to the remote site.
It is useful to have
cron (8)
invoke
nntpsend
with this flag in case a site cannot be reached for an extended period of time.
-n
If the ``-n'' flag is used, then
nntpsend
does not use
shlock (1)
and does not lock batch files.
EXAMPLES
With the following control file:
nsavax:erehwon.nsavax.gov::-S -t60
group70:group70.org::
walldrug:walldrug.com:4m-1m:-T1800 -t300
kremvax:kremvax.cis:2m:
The command:
will result in the following:
Sitename Truncation Innxmit flags
nsavax (none) -a -S -t60
group70 (none) -a -t180
walldrug 1m if >4m -a -T1800 -t300
kremvax 2m -a -t180
The command:
will result in the following:
Sitename Truncation Innxmit flags
nsavax (none) -a -d -S -T1200 -t60
group70 (none) -a -d -T1200 -t180
walldrug 1m if >4m -a -d -T1200 -t300
kremvax 2m -a -d -T1200 -t180
The command:
nntpsend -s 5m -T1200 nsavax erehwon.nsavax.gov group70 group70.org
will result in the following:
Sitename Truncation Innxmit flags
nsavax 5m -a -T1200 -t180
group70 5m -a -T1200 -t180
Remember that ``-a'' is always given, and ``-t'' defaults to 180.
HISTORY
Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com>
and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.
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This is revision \\$3, dated \\$4.
$Id: nntpsend.8,v 1.1.2.1 1999/06/12 08:22:55 kondou Exp $
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