nntpsend - Send Usenet articles to remote sites
nntpsend [
-acDdlNnpr] [
-P portnum] [
-s
size] [
-T timelimit] [
-t timeout]
[
-w delay] [
sitename fqdn] ...
nntpsend is a front-end that invokes
innxmit 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 config file. The
sitename should be the name of the
site as specified in the
newsfeeds 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
nntpsend.log in
pathlog. In order to
keep from overwhelming the local system,
nntpsend waits five seconds
before spawning each child.
nntpsend expects that the batch file for a site is named
sitename
in
pathoutgoing. To prevent batch files corruption,
shlock 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.
An alternative to
nntpsend can be
innduct, mentioned in the
innfeed(8) man page.
-
-D, -d
- The -D flag causes nntpsend to send output to
stdout rather than the log file nntpsend.log in pathlog. The
-d flag does the same and it passes -d to all innxmit
invocations, which in turn causes innxmit to go into debug
mode.
- -n
- If the -n flag is used, then nntpsend does
not use shlock to lock the use of nntpsend. Batch files will
still be locked.
-
-s size
- If the -s flag is used, then shrinkfile will
be invoked to perform a head truncation of size bytes on the batch
file and the flag will be passed to it.
-
-w delay
- If the -w flag is used, then nntpsend waits
for delay seconds after flushing the site before launching
innxmit.
-
-a, -c, -l, -N, -P
portnum, -p, -r, -T timelimit, -t
timeout
- The -a, -c, -l, -P
portnum, -p, -r, -T timelimit and
-t timeout flags are passed on to the child innxmit
program. The -N flag is passed as -s flag 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.
With the following
nntpsend.ctl config file:
nsavax:erehwon.nsavax.gov::-t60
group70:group70.org::
walldrug:walldrug.com:4m-1m:-T1800 -t300
kremvax:kremvax.cis:2m:
the command "nntpsend" will result in the following:
Sitename Truncation innxmit flags
nsavax (none) -a -t60
group70 (none) -a -t180
walldrug 1m if >4m -T1800 -t300
kremvax 2m -t180
The command "nntpsend -d -T1200" will result in the following:
Sitename Truncation innxmit flags
nsavax (none) -a -d -T1200 -t60
group70 (none) -a -d -T1200 -t180
walldrug 1m if >4m -d -T1200 -t300
kremvax 2m -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 -T1200 -t180
group70 5m -T1200 -t180
Remember that
-a is always given when there is no size limit, and
-t defaults to 180.
Written by Landon Curt Noll <
[email protected]> and Rich $alz
<
[email protected]> for InterNetNews. Converted to POD by Julien Elie.
inn.conf(5),
innxmit(8),
newsfeeds(5),
nntpsend.ctl(5),
shlock(1),
shrinkfile(1).