NAME
news - display system news
SYNOPSIS
news [-adDeflnpvxs] [[article1] [article2] ..]
DESCRIPTION
The news command keeps you informed of news concerning the system.
Each news item is contained in a separate file in the /var/lib/sysnews
directory. Anyone having write permission to this directory can create
a news file.
If you run the news command without any flags, it displays every unread
file in the /var/lib/sysnews directory.
Each file is preceded by an appropriate header. To avoid reporting old
news, the news command stores a currency time. The news command
considers your currency time to be the date the $HOME/.news_time file
was last modified. Each time you read the news, the modification time
of this file changes to that of the reading. Only news item files
posted after this time are considered unread.
OPTIONS
-a, --all
Display all news, also the already read news.
-d, --datestamp
Add a date stamp to each article name printed. this can only be
used with the -nl flags.
-D, --datefmt <fmt>
Specify a date format, see the strftime(3) man page for more
details. the default format is (%b %d %Y)
-f, --newsdir <dir>
Read news from an alternate newsdir.
-l, --oneperline
One article name per line.
-n, --names
Only show the names of news articles.
-p, --page
Pipe articles through $PAGER or more(1) if the $PAGER
environment variable is not set.
-s, --articles
Reports the number of news articles.
MAINTAINER OPTIONS
-e, --expire #
Expire news older than # days.
-x, --exclude a,b,c
A comma separated list of articles which may not be expired. if
a file named .noexpire exists in the /var/lib/sysnews direcory,
filenames are read from it also. names in this file may be comma
separated, and/or one per line.
AUTHOR
Charles, <int@link.xs4all.nl>