applyfilter(8)

1applyfilter(8)              System Manager's Manual             applyfilter(8)
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NAME

6       applyfilter - apply filter settings to news spool
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SYNOPSIS

10       applyfilter [-v] ... newsgroup
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DESCRIPTION

14       Leafnode  is a USENET package intended for small sites, where there are
15       few users and little disk space, but where a large number of groups  is
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18       Applyfilter  is the program to apply filter settings to your newsspool,
19       particularly after changes that were not in  effect  at  the  time  the
20       articles  were  downloaded  with  fetchnews. Applyfilter is used if you
21       want to remove postings from your spool matching a certain filter  pat‐
22       tern  (see  FILES below). If the headers of an article match any of the
23       filtering rules, the article is being deleted from the newsgroup.
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25       Applyfilter sets its real and effective uid to "news".
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OPTIONS

29       -v     Be verbose.
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32              is the newsgroup you want to apply the filter to.
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FILES

36       A file specified in the filterfile option of /etc/leafnode/config  con‐
37       tains  the  set  of  filtering rules that are applied to the newsspool.
38       Each rule must be on a separate line. Empty lines and comments  (marked
39       by a # which MUST be at the beginning of the line) are allowed and will
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42       Each line contains a regular expression that will be compiled with  the
43       PCRE_MULTILINE  option  set  (unless  it  is a comment line or an empty
44       line). Every regular expression applied to  the  whole  message  header
45       (folded  message  headers  are unfolded before the match is attempted).
46       If any regular expression matches the header, the posting gets removed.
47       For  example,  the following set of rules will delete all crosspostings
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50       ^Newsgroups:.*[, ]alt.flame$
51       ^Newsgroups:.*[, ]alt.flame,
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53       ^Newsgroups: indicates that the pattern should only be applied  to  the
54       Newsgroups: header. After the header, an arbitrary number of characters
55       may follow, ending in either a comma or a space. After that,  alt.flame
56       must  be in the line, either at the end of the line (first entry) or in
57       the middle of the line, followed by other newsgroups (second entry).
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59       Unfortunately, regular expressions are a complex matter and outside the
60       scope  of  this document. Please see the manual pages provided with the
61       PCRE library for details.
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63       Note that some leafnode programs (such as fetchnews)  feed  the  header
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65       ter) feed the whole header in one large blob.  This  does  not  usually
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67       if you're trying to match multiple headers in the same regexp  --  this
68       would work with applyfilter, but not with fetchnews.
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ENVIRONMENT

72       LN_LOCK_TIMEOUT
73              This  variable is parsed as an unsigned integer value and deter‐
74              mines how many seconds applyfilter  will  wait  when  trying  to
75              obtain  the  lock file from another leafnode program. 0 means to
76              wait indefinitely. This variable takes precedence over the  con‐
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AUTHOR

81       Copyright 1999 by Cornelius Krasel <krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-
82       wuerzburg.de>.
83       Copyright 2002 - 2006 by Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>.
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85       Leafnode was originally written by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
86       and is copyright 1995-96 Troll Tech AS, Postboks 6133 Etterstad, 0602
87       Oslo, Norway, fax +47 22646949.
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