NNTPSEND(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       NNTPSEND(8)

NAME

       nntpsend - send Usenet articles to remote site

SYNOPSIS

       nntpsend [ -a ] [ -c ] [ -D ] [ -d ] [ -l ] [ -N ] [ -n ] [ -P portnum ] [ -p ] [ -r ] [ -S ] [ -s size ] [ -T timelimit ] [ -t timeout ] [
       -w delay ] [ 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 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 <pathlog in inn.conf>/nntpsend.log.  In order to keep from overwhelming the local
       system, nntpsend waits five seconds before spawning each child.

       Nntpsend expects that the batchfile for a site is named <pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/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 oper-
       ate.  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

       -d -D  The  ``-d''  flag  causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather than the log file <pathlog in inn.conf>/nntpsend.log.	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(1) and does not lock batch files.

       -s size
	      If the ``-s'' flag is used, then shrinkfile(1) will be invoked to perform a head truncation on the batchfile 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 -p -r -S -T -t
	      The  ``-a'', ``-c'', ``-l'', ``-P'', ``-p'', ``-r'', ``-S'', ``-T'' and ``-t'' 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(5) 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  5909,  dated
       2002-12-03.

SEE ALSO

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

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