send-nntp(8) [suse man page]

SEND-UUCP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      SEND-UUCP(8)

NAME

       send-nntp, send-ihave - send Usenet articles to remote site

SYNOPSIS

       send-nntp [ -d ] sitename:hostname | sitename [ sitename:hostname | sitename ..	]

       send-ihave [ -d ] sitename:hostname | sitename [ sitename:hostname | sitename ..  ]

DESCRIPTION

       The send-* utilities are scripts that process the batch files written by innd(8) to send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP site.

       The sites to be fed may be specified by giving sitename hostname pairs on the command line.

       The sitename is the label the site has in the newsfeeds file, the hostname is the real hostname of the remote site, a FQDN (Fully Qualified
       Domain Name).  Normally, the sitename and the hostname are the same, and as such don't have to be specified as sitename:hostname pairs  but
       just as a sitename.

       send-nntp starts an innxmit to send the articles to the remote site.

       send-ihave  encapsulates  the articles in an ihave control message and uses inews to send the articles to a to.sitename pseudo-group. Using
       send-ihave is discouraged, nobody uses it anymore and even the author of this manpage is unsure as to how it  actually  works  or  used	to
       work.

       send-*  expect  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.

OPTIONS

       -d     The ``-d'' flag causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather than the log file <pathlog in inn.conf>/<program-name>.log.

NOTES

       You should probably not use send-nntp, but innfeed, or if that is not possible, nntpsend.

       The usual flags for a batch file for send-nntp are ``Tf,Wfm''.

SEE ALSO

       newsfeeds(5), nntpsend(8)

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

NAME

       innxbatch - send xbatched Usenet articles to a remote NNTP server

SYNOPSIS

       innxbatch [ -D ] [ -t timeout ] [ -T timeout ] [ -v ] host file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Innxbatch connects to the NNTP server at the specified host and sends it the specified xbatch files, using the XBATCH extension to the NNTP
       protocol. It is normally invoked by a script run out of cron(8) that uses shlock(1) to lock the host name, followed by a ctlinnd(8) command
       to flush the batchfile.

       Innxbatch  normally  blocks  until  the connection is made.  To specify a timeout on how long to try to make the connection, use the ``-t''
       flag.
       To specify the total amount of time that should be allowed for article transfers, use the ``-T'' flag.
       The default is to wait until an I/O error occurs, or all the articles have been transferred. If the  ``-T''  flag  is  used,  the  time	is
       checked just before an article is started; it will not abort a transfer that is in progress. Both values are measured in seconds.

       Each file is removed after it has been successfully transferred.

       If  a communication error such as a write(2) failure, or an unexpected reply from the remote server occurs, innxbatch will stop sending and
       leave all remaining files untouched for later retry.

       Upon exit, innxbatch reports transfer and CPU usage statistics via syslog(3).  If the ``-v'' flag is used, they will also be printed on the
       standard output.

       Use  the  ``-D'' flag to print debugging information on standard error.	This will show the protocol transactions between innxbatch and the
       NNTP server on the remote host.

       A sample newsfeeds(5) entry to produce appropriate xbatch files (thanks to Karsten Leipold <poldi@dfn.de>):

	 nase
	   :*
	   :Tc,Wnb
	   :<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/batcher 
	      -p "(<$ac_cv_path_COMPRESS in config.cache> >
	      <pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/nase.$$)" 
	      nase.do.main

       A sample script to invoke innxbatch(8) is:

	 #!/bin/sh
	 ##  SH script to send xbatches for a site, wrapped around innxbatch
	 ##  Invocation:
	 ##	sendxbatches.sh <sitename> <hostname> <xbatch file name> ...

	 if [ $# -le 3 ]
	 then
	    echo "usage: $0 <sitename> <hostname> <xbatch file name>"
	    exit 1
	 fi

	 . <PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/innshellvars

	 site="$1"; host="$2"; shift; shift

	 ctlinnd flush "$site" 
	 && sleep 5 
	 && exec $NEWSBIN/innxbatch -v -D "$host" $*

HISTORY

       Written by Stefan Petri <petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>, modelled after innxmit(8) and the XBATCH patch for the nntp reference implementation.

SEE ALSO

       ctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innd(8), innxmit(8), newsfeeds(5), nntpsend(8), shlock(1).

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