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INNCHECK(8) System Manager's Manual INNCHECK(8) NAME
inncheck - check inn configuration and database files. SYNOPSIS
inncheck [ -a ] [ -v ] [ -pedantic ] [ -f ] [ -perm ] [ -noperm ] [ file=value | file ] DESCRIPTION
Inncheck examines various configuration files and databases and verifies things about them. Things verified depend on the file being checked, but generally are things like permissions, ownership, syntax errors in config files etc. Inncheck does not make changes to any files -- it just reports what it thinks may be wrong, and it is up to the operator to fix the prob- lem. The set of files checked may be restricted by using file or file=value arguments. For example, putting incoming.conf causes only the incom- ing.conf(5) file to be checked. Using incoming.conf=/tmp/incoming.conf on the command line will cause inncheck to only verify the incom- ing.conf file, and it will perform the checks on the file /tmp/incoming.conf file instead of the default one. Valid values for file are: active control.ctl expire.ctl incoming.conf inn.conf moderators newsfeeds overview.fmt nntpsend.ctl passwd.nntp OPTIONS
-a If any ``file'' value or ``file=value'' pairs (see below) are given, then normally only the files they refer to are checked. Use the ``-a'' flag to specify that all files should be checked regardless. In this case the form file=value will be the more useful. -v Use the ``-v'' option to get more verbose output. -pedantic Use the ``-pedantic'' option to get reports on things that are not necessarily wrong, but may indicate a bad configuration -- such as inn.conf(5) missing a key. -f Use the ``-f'' flag to have inncheck print the appropriate chown/chgrp/chmod command necessary to fix a problem that it reports. Any other output lines will be prefixed with a ``#'' character to make the output be valid input for a shell. Note that the ``-perm'' flag must be used as well when using this flag. -perm Inncheck checks all files for permission problems. If the ``-perm'' flag is used, then only the files specified by the file or file=value command line arguments will be checked for problems other than permission problems. -noperm To avoid doing any checking of file permissions or ownership, use the ``-noperm'' option. EXAMPLES
To have inncheck check all files for syntax and permission problems simply: inncheck To have inncheck check all files for permission problems and to verify the syntax of the active and incoming.conf files do: inncheck -perm active incoming.conf To have inncheck check the test newsfeeds file in /var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing, do: inncheck newsfeeds=/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing To have inncheck check all the files as it normally does, but to specify a different location for the newsfeeds file, so: inncheck -a newsfeeds=/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing BUGS
If the ``-f'' and ``-perm'' options are used together, along with ``-a'' or some ``file'' or ``file=value'' arguments that refer to a file with a syntax problem, then the output will no longer be valid input for a shell. HISTORY
Written by Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cygnus.com> and Rich Salz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> This is revision 1.5, dated 1998/10/30. SEE ALSO
active(5), expire.ctl(5), history(5), incoming.conf(5), inn.conf(5), newsfeeds(5) INNCHECK(8)
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NNTPSEND(8) System Manager's Manual NNTPSEND(8) NAME
nntpsend - send Usenet articles to remote site SYNOPSIS
nntpsend [ -a ] [ -c ] [ -D ] [ -d ] [ -n ] [ -P portnum ] [ -p ] [ -r ] [ -S ] [ -s size ] [ -T timelimit ] [ -t timeout ] [ 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 <pathlog in inn.conf>/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 <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 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. -a -c -P -p -r -S -T -t The ``-a'', ``-c'', ``-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 1.8.6.1, dated 2000/08/17. SEE ALSO
inn.conf(5), innxmit(1), newsfeeds(5), nntpsend.ctl(5), shrinkfile(1). NNTPSEND(8)