ACTIVED(8)ACTIVED(8)NAME
actived - a daemon to handle nnrpd requests for active
file information.
SYNOPSIS
actived
DESCRIPTION
Actived is a process that keeps an in-memory copy of the
news active(5) file along with its hashed index and serves
requests for active file information from nnrpd(8)
clients. This saves significants amounts of memory for
each nnrpd client and also reduces its startup time as it
no longer needs to index the active file. The process is
able to handle many requests as second and should improve
the overall performance of news reader machines.
Actived is enabled with the ``activedenable'' option in
inn.conf(5) and is started by inndstart(8). The
``activedupdate'' option determines how often the in-mem-
ory copy of the active file is updated and the ``actived-
port'' option allows one to specify the UDP port to
send/receive requests.
The process writes its process ID into a file
pathrun/actived.pid on startup. The process remains active
until killed manually. If it is killed or dies for some
reason, clients will revert to direct access to the active
file, which will be a lot slower.
SEE ALSOinndstart(8), nnrpd(8), inn.conf(5), active(5).
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