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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.
SEE ALSO
inn.conf(5), innxmit(8), newsfeeds(5), nntpsend.ctl(5), shlock(1), shrinkfile(1).