NAME

       newsrequeue - tool to rewrite batchfiles.

SYNOPSIS

       newsrequeue [ -a active ] [ -h history ] [ -d days ] [ -l ] [ -n newsfeeds ] [ input ]

DESCRIPTION

       Newsrequeue  can  be  used to rewrite batchfiles after a system crash.  It operates in two modes.  In the
       first mode, it first reads the active (5)  and  newsfeeds(5)  files  to  determine  where  the  different
       newsgroups  are  to  be  distributed.   It  then  opens the history database.  Once the files are opened,
       newsrequeue reads from the specified input file, or standard input if no file is  specified.   Each  line
       should  have  a  single  Message-ID, surrounded in angle brackets; any other text on the line is ignored.
       For example, the history file (or trailing subset of it) is acceptable input to the program operating  in
       this mode.

       Newsrequeue  uses  the  first two fields of the newsfeed entry — the sitename and the excludes field, and
       the patterns and distribs field.  It ignores all flags in the third field except for the ``N'' field, and
       also ignores the fourth field altogether.

       The output of newsrequeue consists of one line for each article that should be forwarded.  Each such line
       contains the Message-ID, the filename, and the list of sites that should receive the article.  The output
       is suitable for piping into filechan(8).

       The second mode is used if the ``-l'' flag is given.  In this mode, it reads  from  the  specified  input
       file,  or  standard  input  if  no  file is specified.  Each line should look like an innd log entry.  It
       parses entries for accepted articles, looks up  the  Message-ID  in  the  history  database  to  get  the
       filename, and then scans the list of sites.

OPTIONS

       -a     To specify alternate locations for the active file, use the ``-a'' flag.

       -n     Use the ``-n'' flag to specify an alternate location for the newsfeeds(8) file.

       -h     Use the ``-h'' flag to specify a different location for the history database,

       -d     If  the  ``-d'' flag is used, then only articles that were received within the specified number of
              days will be processed.

       -l     Read innd type log entries instead of a history-file like entries.

HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.2, dated 1996/10/29.

SEE ALSO

       active(5),  ctlinnd(8),  dbz(3),   filechan(8),   history(5),   innd(8),   newsfeeds(5),   makeactive(8),
       makehistory(8).

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