NAME
nntpsend - send Usenet articles to remote site
SYNOPSIS
nntpsend [ -a ] [ -c ] [ -D ] [ -d ] [ -l ] [ -N ] [ -n ] [ -P portnum
] [ -p ] [ -r ] [ -S ] [ -s size ] [ -T timelimit ] [ -t timeout ] [ -w
delay ] [ 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 config file.
The sitename should be the name of the site as specified in the
newsfeeds(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
processes are spawned in the background and the script waits for them
all to finish before returning. Output is sent to the file
<pathlog in inn.conf>/nntpsend.log. In order to keep from overwhelming
the local system, nntpsend waits five seconds before spawning each
child.
Nntpsend expects 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.
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.
OPTIONS
-d -D The ‘‘-d’’ flag causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather
than the log file <pathlog in inn.conf>/nntpsend.log. 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(1)
and does not lock batch files.
-s size
If the ‘‘-s’’ flag is used, then shrinkfile(1) will be invoked
to perform a head truncation on the batchfile 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 -p -r -S -T -t
The ‘‘-a’’, ‘‘-c’’, ‘‘-l’’, ‘‘-P’’, ‘‘-p’’, ‘‘-r’’, `‘-S’’,
‘‘-T’’ and ‘‘-t’’ 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.
EXAMPLES
With the following nntpsend.ctl(5) control file:
nsavax:erehwon.nsavax.gov::-S -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 -S -t60
group70 (none) -a -t180
walldrug 1m if >4m -a -T1800 -t300
kremvax 2m -a -t180
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 if >4m -a -d -T1200 -t300
kremvax 2m -a -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 -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 5909, dated
2002-12-03.
SEE ALSO
inn.conf(5), innxmit(1), newsfeeds(5), nntpsend.ctl(5), shrinkfile(1).