SEND-UUCP(8)SEND-UUCP(8)NAME
send-uucp, send-nntp, send-ihave - send Usenet articles to
remote site
SYNOPSIS
{ send-nntp | send-uucp | send-ihave } [ -d ] site-
name:hostname | sitename [ sitename:hostname | sitename ..
]
DESCRIPTION
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.site-
name 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.
OPTIONS-d The ``-d'' flag causes nntpsend to send output to
stdout rather than the log file
<pathlog in inn.conf>/<program-name>.log.
NOTES
You should probably not use send-nntp, but innfeed, or if
that is not possible, nntpsend.
The usual flags in the newsfeed file to write a batch file
suitable for processing by send-uucp are Tf,Wfb .
The usual flags for a batch file for send-nntp are Tf,Wfm
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SEND-UUCP(8)SEND-UUCP(8)SEE ALSOnewsfeeds(5), nntpsend(8)
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