1IN.HOSTS(5)                   File Formats Manual                  IN.HOSTS(5)
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NAME

6       in.hosts - newsx incoming host state
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DESCRIPTION

10       The in.hosts directory contains the necessary state information for the
11       incoming news streams fetched by newsx(8).
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13       For    each    incoming    news    source,    there    must    be     a
14       /var/spool/news/inhosts/spoolname  file  that describes what the latest
15       article is that has been fetched from that particular host.
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17       If you want to get all news articles in all the groups defined at  your
18       local server, do nothing and let the file be constructed automatically.
19       Other choices, such as using multiple cron(8) entries and newsx(8)  end
20       tags  to  control when certain newsgroups are fetched, or using .newsrc
21       article numbers to avoid fetching articles you've already seen, require
22       setting up the in.hosts file for the server by hand.
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24       The format of this file is simple:
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26       Blank lines and lines starting with a '#' are treated as comments.
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28       Lines starting with a ':' indicate a tag for use with the newsx -e (end
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31       Otherwise, each line consists of a newsgroup name and the first  unread
32       article  number,  separated  by  whitespace.   No article number is the
33       same as zero, meaning that all available articles on the server will be
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36       It  is  important to realize that there is one unique file belonging to
37       each remote newsserver, and that they should not be mixed.
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39       If switching from reading news via an NNTP newsreader to fetching  with
40       newsx,  it  is possible to use an existing .newsrc file directly as the
41       initial /var/spool/news/inhosts/spoolname file.
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FILES

45       /var/spool/news/inhosts/spoolname
46              Incoming host state file.  There should  be  one  of  these  per
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49       /var/spool/news/inhosts/spoolname.tmp
50              Incoming spool, temporary (while news is being pulled).
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53              Previous generation of the external host state file.
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55       /var/spool/news/in.hosts/spoolname.conf
56       Standard  profile  for  specific newsspool.  See newsx.conf(5) for file
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AUTHOR

61       Egil Kvaleberg <egil@kvaleberg.no>
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SEE ALSO

65       newsx(8)
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