1NNTPSEND(8) InterNetNews Documentation NNTPSEND(8)
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6 nntpsend - Send Usenet articles to remote sites
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9 nntpsend [-acDdlNnpr] [-P portnum] [-s size] [-T timelimit] [-t
10 timeout] [-w delay] [sitename fqdn] ...
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13 nntpsend is a front-end that invokes innxmit to send Usenet articles to
14 a remote NNTP site. The sites to be fed may be specified by giving
15 sitename fqdn pairs on the command line. If no such pairs are given,
16 nntpsend defaults to the information given in the nntpsend.ctl config
17 file. The sitename should be the name of the site as specified in the
18 newsfeeds file. The fqdn should be the hostname or IP address of the
19 remote site. An innxmit is launched for sites with queued news. All
20 innxmit processes are spawned in the background and the script waits
21 for them all to finish before returning. Output is sent to the file
22 nntpsend.log in pathlog. In order to keep from overwhelming the local
23 system, nntpsend waits five seconds before spawning each child.
24 nntpsend expects that the batch file for a site is named sitename in
26 pathoutgoing. To prevent batch files corruption, shlock is used to
27 "lock" these files. When sitename fqdn pairs are given on the command
28 line, any flags given on the command completely describe how innxmit
29 and shrinkfile operate. When no such pairs are given on the command
30 line, then the information found in nntpsend.ctl becomes the default
31 flags for that site. Any flags given on the command line override the
32 default flags for the site.
33 An alternative to nntpsend can be innduct, mentioned in the innfeed(8)
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38 -D, -d
39 The -D flag causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather than the
40 log file nntpsend.log in pathlog. The -d flag does the same and it
41 passes -d to all innxmit invocations, which in turn causes innxmit to
42 go into debug mode.
43 -n
45 If the -n flag is used, then nntpsend does not use shlock to lock the
46 use of nntpsend. Batch files will still be locked.
47 -s size
49 If the -s flag is used, then shrinkfile will be invoked to perform a
50 head truncation of size bytes on the batch file and the flag will be
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52 -w delay
54 If the -w flag is used, then nntpsend waits for delay seconds after
55 flushing the site before launching innxmit.
56 -a, -c, -l, -N, -P portnum, -p, -r, -T timelimit, -t timeout
58 The -a, -c, -l, -P portnum, -p, -r, -T timelimit and -t timeout flags
59 are passed on to the child innxmit program. The -N flag is passed as
60 -s flag to the child innxmit program. See innxmit(8) for more
61 details.
62 Note that if the -p flag is used, then no connection is made and no
64 articles are fed to the remote site. It is useful to have cron(8)
65 invoke nntpsend with this flag in case a site cannot be reached for
66 an extended period of time.
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69 With the following nntpsend.ctl config file:
70 nsavax:erehwon.nsavax.gov::-t60
72 group70:group70.org::
73 walldrug:walldrug.com:4m-1m:-T1800 -t300
74 kremvax:kremvax.cis:2m:
75 the command "nntpsend" will result in the following:
77 Sitename Truncation innxmit flags
79 nsavax (none) -a -t60
80 group70 (none) -a -t180
81 walldrug 1m if >4m -T1800 -t300
82 kremvax 2m -t180
83 The command "nntpsend -d -T1200" will result in the following:
85 Sitename Truncation innxmit flags
87 nsavax (none) -a -d -T1200 -t60
88 group70 (none) -a -d -T1200 -t180
89 walldrug 1m if >4m -d -T1200 -t300
90 kremvax 2m -d -T1200 -t180
91 The command "nntpsend -s 5m -T1200 nsavax erehwon.nsavax.gov group70
93 group70.org" will result in the following:
94 Sitename Truncation innxmit flags
96 nsavax 5m -T1200 -t180
97 group70 5m -T1200 -t180
98 Remember that -a is always given when there is no size limit, and -t
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103 Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz
104 <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. Converted to POD by Julien
105 Elie.
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108 inn.conf(5), innxmit(1), newsfeeds(5), nntpsend.ctl(5), shlock(1),
109 shrinkfile(1).
110INN 2.6.5 2022-01-23 NNTPSEND(8)