NNTPSEND(8) InterNetNews Documentation NNTPSEND(8)
NAME
nntpsend - Send Usenet articles to remote sites
SYNOPSIS
nntpsend [-acDdlNnpr] [-P portnum] [-s size] [-T timelimit] [-t
timeout] [-w delay] [sitename fqdn] ...
DESCRIPTION
nntpsend is a front-end that invokes innxmit 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 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
nntpsend.log in pathlog. In order to keep from overwhelming the local
system, nntpsend waits five seconds before spawning each child.
nntpsend expects that the batch file for a site is named sitename in
pathoutgoing. To prevent batch files corruption, shlock 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.
An alternative to nntpsend can be innduct, mentioned in the innfeed(8)
man page.
OPTIONS
-D, -d
The -D flag causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather than the
log file nntpsend.log in pathlog. 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 to lock the
use of nntpsend. Batch files will still be locked.
-s size
If the -s flag is used, then shrinkfile will be invoked to perform a
head truncation of size bytes on the batch file 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 portnum, -p, -r, -T timelimit, -t timeout
The -a, -c, -l, -P portnum, -p, -r, -T timelimit and -t timeout 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 config file:
nsavax:erehwon.nsavax.gov::-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 -t60
group70 (none) -a -t180
walldrug 1m if >4m -T1800 -t300
kremvax 2m -t180
The command "nntpsend -d -T1200" will result in the following:
Sitename Truncation innxmit flags
nsavax (none) -a -d -T1200 -t60
group70 (none) -a -d -T1200 -t180
walldrug 1m if >4m -d -T1200 -t300
kremvax 2m -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 -T1200 -t180
group70 5m -T1200 -t180
Remember that -a is always given when there is no size limit, and -t
defaults to 180.
HISTORY
Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz
<rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. Converted to POD by Julien
Elie.
$Id: nntpsend.pod 9588 2013-12-19 17:46:41Z iulius $
SEE ALSO
inn.conf(5), innxmit(1), newsfeeds(5), nntpsend.ctl(5), shlock(1),
shrinkfile(1).
INN 2.6.4 2015-09-20 NNTPSEND(8)