NEWSSTAR(1) [FIXME: manual] NEWSSTAR(1) NAME newsstar - NNTP news fetcher SYNOPSIS newsstar [-A NUM] [-a] [-b] [-f] [-m] [-o SERVER] [--overview=PATH] [-q] [-r] [-s] [-sn | -snews] [--snstore=PATH] [-v] [-vv] [-w] [--pre- process] [--postprocess] DESCRIPTION Newsstar(TM) fetches news from a number of remote NNTP servers and posts it to a local server (INN, s-news or sn), and also posts outgoing articles from the local server to the remote ones. It uses a configurable number of multiple processes or "threads" to maximise bandwidth utilisation. The threads are coordinated to avoid downloading multiple copies of the same article. This man page is just a summary. For more information see the README file and/or HTML documentation provided with the package. OPTIONS A summary of options is included below. -A [NUM] Scan the local server's active or .newsgroups file and ensure that newsstar's newsrc files contain the same groups. If the optional NUM parameter is specified, this is the number of the last article fetched to be inserted for any newly created groups. Usually it only makes sense to use a negative number to indicate the maximum number of arti- cles to download when the group is new. -a In conjunction with -A this causes the newsrc files to be sorted by newsgroup order. -b Minimise the number of messages sent to STDOUT (brief). -f Use full-screen mode with the curses library. -m Articles that can't be posted are mailed back to the sender. -o SERVER Only the named server is processed, all other newsrc files are ignored. --overview PATH s-news' overview binary is at PATH. -q The running display of articles transferred etc is disabled if not in full-screen mode. -r If newsstar is maintaining its own history database, this option makes it reorganize the database to free up unused space whenever items are expired. -s Standard messages (on STDOUT) are separated from debugging messages on STDERR ie newsstar assumes each stream is sent to a separate file or device. -sn Use sn as server instead of INN. -snews Use s-news as server instead of INN. --snstore=PATH sn's snstore binary is at PATH. -v Prints extra information useful for debugging on STDERR. -vv Prints even more information on STDERR. -wWRAPPER Specify a wrapper program to run the binary in, for example a debugger. Note the lack of a space between -w and WRAPPER. --preprocess --postprocess For debugging, these instruct the perl script just to perform its func- tions prior to or after running the binary respectively, without actu- ally running the binary. FILES /usr/local/etc/newsstar Directory where static configuration files are stored. /usr/local/etc/newsstar/main.cf Main configuration file. /usr/local/etc/newsstar/curses.cf Configuration file for full-screen options. /usr/local/etc/newsstar/master.ignore Perl regexps of newsgroups to ignore, common to every remote server. /usr/local/etc/newsstar/cf.SERVER Configuration file for each remote server. /usr/local/etc/newsstar/ignore.SERVER Perl regexps of newsgroups to ignore, specific to each remote server. /var/spool/newsstar/lib Directory where data updated by newsstar is stored. /var/spool/newsstar/lib/newsrc.SERVER List of newsgroups, with last article downloaded, for each remote server. The presence of these files also controls which servers newsstar connects to. /var/spool/newsstar/lib/history GDBM history database. /var/spool/newsstar/incoming Where downloaded articles are temporarily held. /var/spool/news/ /var/spool/sn/ The usual, and therefore default for newsstar, spool directories used by INN and sn respectively. SEE ALSO The program is documented fully by the HTML files starting at /usr/lo- cal/share/doc/newsstar/index.html. You should also read the README file in the same directory first. AUTHOR Tony Houghton Author. COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2003 Tony Houghton [FIXME: source] June 23, 2008 NEWSSTAR(1)
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