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6 innxbatch - send xbatched Usenet articles to a remote NNTP server
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9 innxbatch [ -D ] [ -t timeout ] [ -T timeout ] [ -v ] host file ...
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12 Innxbatch connects to the NNTP server at the specified host and sends
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14 protocol. It is normally invoked by a script run out of cron(8) that
15 uses shlock(1) to lock the host name, followed by a ctlinnd(8) command
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18 Each file is removed after it has been successfully transferred.
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20 If a communication error such as a write(2) failure, or an unexpected
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28 Innxbatch normally blocks until the connection is made. To
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35 The default is to wait until an I/O error occurs, or all the
36 articles have been transferred. If the ``-T'' flag is used, the
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40 -v Upon exit, innxbatch reports transfer and CPU usage statistics
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44 -D Use the ``-D'' flag to print debugging information on standard
45 error. This will show the protocol transactions between innx‐
46 batch and the NNTP server on the remote host.
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49 A sample newsfeeds(5) entry to produce appropriate xbatch files (thanks
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52 nase\
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55 :<pathbin in inn.conf>/batcher \
56 -p "(<$ac_cv_path_COMPRESS in config.cache> >\
57 <pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/nase.\$\$)" \
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60 A sample script to invoke innxbatch(8) is:
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63 ## SH script to send xbatches for a site, wrapped around innxbatch
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65 ## sendxbatches.sh <sitename> <hostname> <xbatch file name> ...
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73 . <pathbin in inn.conf>/innshellvars
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82 Written by Stefan Petri <petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>, modelled after
83 innxmit(8) and the XBATCH patch for the nntp reference implementation.
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86 ctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innd(8), innxmit(8), newsfeeds(5),
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