sm - Command-line interface to the INN storage manager
sm [
-cdHiqRrSs] [
token ...]
The INN storage manager is the subsystem that stores and keeps track of all of
the articles and what storage backend they're in. All stored articles are
assigned a storage API token.
sm is a command-line interface to that
storage manager, primarily used to retrieve articles by those tokens but also
to perform other operations on the storage subsystem.
token is the token of an article (the same thing that's returned by
grephistory or stored in the
history file). It looks something
like:
@0502000005A4000000010000000000000000@
Any number of tokens can be given on the command-line for any function other
than
-s. If none are,
sm normally reads tokens from standard
input, one per line. The default operation is to retrieve and write to
standard output the corresponding article for each token given.
If
-s is given,
sm instead stores the article given on standard
input (in native format, unless
-R is given, in which case wire format
is expected) using the standard rules of the storage subsystem. If the article
is stored successfully, the token of the article is printed to standard
output. Please note that this does not make any attempt to write a history
entry or any overview data, and is therefore only useful under very specific
circumstances.
- -c
- Show a clear, decoded form of the storage API token. Each
part of the token is explained, in a human-readable string. Amongst other
elements, this command gives the path to where the corresponding article
is supposed to be stored.
-
-d, -r
- Rather than retrieving the specified article, remove the
article. This will delete the article out of the news spool and it will
not subsequently be retrievable by any part of INN. It's equivalent to
"ctlinnd cancel" except it takes a storage API token instead of
a message-ID.
- -H
- Retrieve only the headers of the article rather than the
entire article. This option cannot be used with -d, -r,
-i, or -S.
- -i
- Show the newsgroup name and article number associated with
the token rather than the article itself. Note that for crossposted
articles, only the first newsgroup and article number to which the article
is associated will be returned.
- -q
- Suppress all error messages except usage errors.
- -R
- Display the raw article. This means that line endings won't
be converted to native line endings and will be left as CRLF sequences;
leading periods will still be escaped for sending over NNTP, and the
article will end in a CRLF.CRLF sequence.
When used with -s, read articles in wire format.
- -S
- Write the article to standard output in the format used by
rnews spool files. Multiple articles can be written in this format,
and the resulting output can be fed to rnews (on another system,
for example) to inject those articles into INN. This option cannot be used
with -d, -r, -H, -i, or -R.
- -s
- Store the article given on standard input using the normal
storage rules for articles as configured in storage.conf(5). Print
the new token for the message to standard output if it is stored
successfully. If this option is given, no other options except -R
and possibly -q should be given. When -R is given, any
number of articles in wire format are read on standard input and
stored.
If all operations were successful,
sm exits with status 0. If an
operation on any of the provided tokens fails,
sm will exit with status
1, even if the operations on other tokens were successful. In other words, if
twenty tokens are fed to "sm -r" on stdin, 19 articles were
successfully removed, but the sixth article couldn't be found,
sm will
still exit with status 1.
This means that if you need to be sure whether a particular operation succeeded,
you should run
sm on one token at a time.
Written by Katsuhiro Kondou <
[email protected]> for InterNetNews. Rewritten
in POD by Russ Allbery <
[email protected]>.
ctlinnd(8),
grephistory(1),
history(5),
rnews(1),
storage.conf(5).