The send-* utilities are scripts that process the batch files written
by
innd (8)
to send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP or UUCP site.
The sites to be fed may be specified by giving
sitename
hostname
pairs on the command line.
The
sitename
is the label the site has in the
newsfeeds
file, the
hostname
is the real hostname of the remote site, a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name)
in the case of an NNTP host, or the UUCP name in the case of a UUCP host.
Normally, the
sitename
and the
hostname
are the same, and as such don't have to be specified as sitename:hostname
pairs but just as a sitename.
send-uucp
compresses batches of news and sends the to the remote site with
uux.
send-nntp
Starts an innxmit to send the articles to the remote site.
send-ihave
encapsulates the articles in an
ihave
control message and uses
inews
to send the articles to a
to.sitename
pseudo-group. Using
send-ihave
is discouraged, nobody uses it anymore and even the author of this manpage
is unsure as to how it actually works or used to work.
send-*
expect 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.