debian man page for snhello

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

NAME
       HELLO - perform initial conversation with a newsserver (used by sn news system)

SYNOPSIS
       HELLO

DESCRIPTION
       HELLO  is the program that gets executed for every newsserver by the snget(8) program. There is a connection to the newsserver, but nothing
       has been sent or received yet. This program handles the initial contact. File descriptors 6 is used for data coming  from  the  newsserver,
       and descriptor 7 is used for data going to the newsserver.

       This program is used by the sn news system.

       You  never  have  to  use  this	program yourself. However, when a newsserver is non-standard, you may have to modify a copy of it for that
       server.	Newsserver-specific copies should go into /var/spool/sn/.outgoing/HOST

SEE ALSO
       snget(8), sn(8)

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