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NAME
procbatch - Process an INN funnel file or innfeed-dropped file
SYNOPSIS
procbatch [-hquv] [-c [-s spooldir]] [-d outdir] [-e peer] [-m [-t
backlogdir]] batchfile
DESCRIPTION
procbatch will take an INN funnel or innfeed-dropped file and split it
up by host for direct processing with innfeed or innxmit.
While funnel files will normally only be of interest after a crash,
innfeed may drop articles for a variety of reasons, not all of which
indicate a fundamental problem. For example, innfeed may drop articles
when started and stopped in quick succession while INN processes a
large number of control messages (a temporary indisposition), or when
INN feeds it articles for a site that isn't in innfeed.conf (a
misconfiguration).
Every running innfeed opens a file named innfeed-dropped.<id>, which
should normally always be zero length and deleted on exit. If there
are non-zero length files, innfeed has dropped some articles, and those
dropped article files have to be processed or those articles will never
be sent to peers. Though news.daily automatically process these files
(invoking procbatch), it is also possible to do that manually. First
make sure that the file doesn't correspond to a currently running
innfeed, for example by calling "ctlinnd flush innfeed!".
An INN funnel file, or an innfeed-dropped file, will usually be of the
format:
pathname message-id peer1 peer2 peer3 ...
where pathname can alternatively be a storage API token.
procbatch will break this file up into files named peer1.tmp,
peer2.tmp, peer3.tmp, etc. of the format:
pathname message-id
These tape files will be sorted and stripped of duplicate entries.
Simply renaming them to peer1, peer2, peer3, etc. in a running
innfeed's backlog directory will cause them to be picked up
automatically by innfeed every backlog-newfile-period seconds (as set
in in innfeed.conf). Use the -m flag to have procbatch rename and move
them into place automatically.
After running procbatch, you may want to make sure that every generated
backlog file has a corresponding ".lock" file. Otherwise, innfeed
doesn't have that site configured as a peer, meaning your innfeed.conf
may need fixing.
OPTIONS
-c Check for the existence of an article before writing references to
it to the tape files. Currently, this option can only be used with
a tradspool article store. Using it with any other spool format
will lead to all articles being dropped.
-d outdir
Put the output file(s) into the directory outdir (defaults to
pathtmp as set in inn.conf). When also specifying -m, the
temporary output files will still be put here before being moved
into their final location.
-e peer
Only process entries for peer.
-h Display a short help screen.
-m Directly append to tape files in innfeed's backlog directory.
-q Quiet mode: only display error messages.
-s spooldir
Use spooldir as the location of the article spool (defaults to
patharticles as set in inn.conf). This option has an effect only
on a tradspool storage system when also specifying -c.
-t backlogdir
Use backlogdir as the location of the innfeed backlog directory
(the directory where the created tape files will be put). Defaults
to pathspool/innfeed. This option has an effect only when also
specifying -m.
-u Unlink the input batchfile after processing.
-v Add verbosity.
EXAMPLES
Take the file innfeed-dropped.B012345, process its lines appending to
tapefiles in innfeed's backlog directory, and remove it when done. Be
verbose while doing so:
procbatch -umv innfeed-dropped.B012345
Go through innfeed-dropped.B012345 saving entries for "peer1" in
/tmp/peer1.tmp, but only if the articles are still available in the
local tradspool:
procbatch -e peer1 -d /tmp -c innfeed-dropped.B012345
BUGS
procbatch should be able to check for the existence of articles with
any kind of article store, possibly using grephistory.
HISTORY
procbatch was written by James Brister and improved for speed by
Clayton O'Neill.
This manual page was written by Florian Schlichting, with the help of a
memo by Russ Allbery.
$Id: procbatch.pod 9371 2011-09-04 09:21:43Z iulius $
SEE ALSO
filechan(8), innfeed(8), innxmit(8), news.daily(8).
INN 2.6.4 2015-09-20 PROCBATCH(8)