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Title "NNTPSEND 8" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
way too many mistakes in technical documents.
nntpsend - Send Usenet articles to remote sites Header "SYNOPSIS" \fBnntpsend [-acDdlNnpr] [-P portnum] [-s size] [-T timelimit] [-t timeout] [-w delay] [sitename fqdn] ... Header "DESCRIPTION" \fBnntpsend is a front-end that invokes innxmit to send Usenet articles to a remote \s-1NNTP\s0 site. The sites to be fed may be specified by giving \fIsitename fqdn pairs on the command line. If no such pairs are given, \fBnntpsend 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 file. The fqdn should be the hostname or \s-1IP\s0 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 \fInntpsend.log in pathlog. In order to keep from overwhelming the local system, nntpsend waits five seconds before spawning each child.

\fBnntpsend expects that the batch file for a site is named sitename in pathoutgoing. To prevent batch files corruption, shlock is used to \*(L"lock\*(R" these files. When sitename fqdn pairs are given on the command line, any flags given on the command completely describe how innxmit and shrinkfile operate. 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.

An alternative to nntpsend can be innduct, mentioned in the \fBinnfeed\|(8) man page.

Header "OPTIONS" Item "-D, -d" The -D flag causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather than the log file nntpsend.log in pathlog. The -d flag does the same and it passes -d to all innxmit invocations, which in turn causes \fBinnxmit to go into debug mode. Item "-n" If the -n flag is used, then nntpsend does not use shlock to lock the use of nntpsend. Batch files will still be locked. Item "-s size" If the -s flag is used, then shrinkfile will be invoked to perform a head truncation of size bytes on the batch file and the flag will be passed to it. Item "-w delay" If the -w flag is used, then nntpsend waits for delay seconds after flushing the site before launching innxmit. Item "-a, -c, -l, -N, -P portnum, -p, -r, -T timelimit, -t timeout" The -a, -c, -l, -P portnum, -p, -r, -T timelimit and -t timeout 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. .Sp 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 \fBnntpsend with this flag in case a site cannot be reached for an extended period of time. Header "EXAMPLES" With the following nntpsend.ctl config file:

.Vb 4 nsavax:erehwon.nsavax.gov::-t60 group70:group70.org:: walldrug:walldrug.com:4m-1m:-T1800 -t300 kremvax:kremvax.cis:2m: .Ve

the command \*(C`nntpsend\*(C' will result in the following:

.Vb 5 Sitename Truncation innxmit flags nsavax (none) -a -t60 group70 (none) -a -t180 walldrug 1m if >4m -T1800 -t300 kremvax 2m -t180 .Ve

The command \*(C`nntpsend -d -T1200\*(C' will result in the following:

.Vb 5 Sitename Truncation innxmit flags nsavax (none) -a -d -T1200 -t60 group70 (none) -a -d -T1200 -t180 walldrug 1m if >4m -d -T1200 -t300 kremvax 2m -d -T1200 -t180 .Ve

The command \*(C`nntpsend -s 5m -T1200 nsavax erehwon.nsavax.gov group70 group70.org\*(C' will result in the following:

.Vb 3 Sitename Truncation innxmit flags nsavax 5m -T1200 -t180 group70 5m -T1200 -t180 .Ve

Remember that -a is always given when there is no size limit, and -t defaults to 180.

Header "HISTORY" Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. Converted to \s-1POD\s0 by Julien Elie.

\f(CW$Id: nntpsend.pod 9588 2013-12-19 17:46:41Z iulius $

Header "SEE ALSO" \fBinn.conf\|(5), innxmit\|(1), newsfeeds\|(5), nntpsend.ctl\|(5), shlock\|(1), \fBshrinkfile\|(1).