NNTPSEND(8)NNTPSEND(8)NAMEnntpsend - send Usenet articles to remote site
SYNOPSISnntpsend [ -d ] [ -p ] [ -r ] [ -S ] [ -s size ] [ -t timeout ] [ -T
timelimit ] [ 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 news‐
feeds(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 pro‐
cesses are spawned in the background and the script waits for them all
to finish before returning. Output is sent to the file
/var/spool/news/data/nntpsend.log. In order to keep from overwhelming
the local system, nntpsend waits five seconds before spawned each
child. The flag ``-a'' is always given as a flag to innxmit.
Nntpsend expects that the batchfile for a site is named
/var/spool/news/out.going/sitename. To prevent batchfile corruption,
shlock(1) is used to ``lock'' these files.
The ``-p'', ``-r'', ``-S'', ``-t'', and ``-T'' flags are passed on to
the child innxmit program. 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.
If the ``-s'' flag is used, then shrinkfile(1) will be invoked to per‐
form a tail truncation on the batchfile and the flag will be passed to
it.
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.
For example, with the following control file:
nsavax:erehwon.nsavax.gov::-S -t60
group70:group70.org::
walldrug:walldrug.com:1m:-T1800 -t300
The command:
nntpsend
will result in the following:
Sitename Truncation Innxmit flags
nsavax (none) -a -S -t60
group70 (none) -a -t180
walldrug 1m -a -T1800 -t300
The command:
nntpsend-d -T1200
will result in the following:
Sitename Truncation Innxmit flags
nsavax (none) -a -d -S -T1200 -t60
group70 (none) -a -d -T1200 -t180
walldrug 1m -a -d -T1200 -t300
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. This is revision 1.3, dated
1992/08/14.
SEE ALSOinnxmit(1), newsfeeds(5), nntpsend.ctl(5), shrinkfile(1).
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