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NAME

       nntpsend - send Usenet articles to remote site

SYNOPSIS

       nntpsend  [  -a ] [ -c ] [ -d ] [ -D ] [ -p ] [ -r ] [ -S ] [ -l ] [ -n ] [ -s size ] [ -t timeout ] [ -T
       timelimit ] [ -P portnum ] [ sitename fqdn ] ...

DESCRIPTION

       Nntpsend is a front-end that invokes innxmit(1) 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(5) config file.

       The  sitename  should  be the name of the site as specified in the newsfeeds(5) 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
       /var/log/news/nntpsend.log.  In order to keep from overwhelming the local  system,  nntpsend  waits  five
       seconds before spawned each child.

       Nntpsend  expects  that the batchfile for a site is named /var/spool/news/out.going/sitename.  To prevent
       batchfile corruption, shlock(1) 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.

OPTIONS

       -c

       -d -D  The   ``-d''   flag   causes  nntpsend  to  send  output  to  stdout  rather  than  the  log  file
              /var/log/news/nntpsend.log.  The ``-D'' flag does the same and it passes  ``-d''  to  all  innxmit
              invocatins which in turn causes innxmit to go into debug mode.

       -s     If the ``-s'' flag is used, then shrinkfile(1) will be invoked to perform a tail truncation on the
              batchfile and the flag will be passed to it.

       -l     If the ``-l'' (lazy) flag is specified, then the script will be  more  aggressive  about  deciding
              there is nothing to be done.  This can be useful when using nntpsend as a backup for a site fed by
              nntplink.

       -a -p -r -S -t -T
              The ``-a'', ``-p'', ``-P'', ``-r'', ``-S'', ``-t'', and ``-T'' flags are passed on  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 control file:

              nsavax:erehwon.nsavax.gov::-S -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 -S -t60
              group70         (none)          -a -t180
              walldrug        1m if >4m       -a -T1800 -t300
              kremvax         2m              -a -t180

       The command:

              nntpsend -d -T1200

       will result in the following:

              Sitename        Truncation      Innxmit flags
              nsavax          (none)          -a -d -S -T1200 -t60
              group70         (none)          -a -d -T1200 -t180
              walldrug        1m if >4m       -a -d -T1200 -t300
              kremvax         2m              -a -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              -a -T1200 -t180
              group70         5m              -a -T1200 -t180

       Remember that ``-a'' is always given, and ``-t'' defaults to 180.

HISTORY

       Written  by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This
       is revision 1.9, dated 1996/10/29.

SEE ALSO

       innxmit(1), newsfeeds(5), nntpsend.ctl(5), shrinkfile(1).

                                                                                                     NNTPSEND(8)