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

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 ] [ site-
       name 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 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

       -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).

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