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NAME¶
knewsd - a tiny nntp demonSYNOPSIS¶
knewsd [ options ]DESCRIPTION¶
Knewsd is intended to be used with knews(1) to read news (in)directly from the spool directory or even from a mail folder hierarchy. It reads NNTP commands from standard input and writes replies to standard output. The following commands are implemented:ARTICLE [number] BODY [number] HEAD [number]
Return the head and/or body of the current or
the specified article. Message-id lookups are not supported.
Enters the given newsgroup.
Gives a list of the implemented
commands.
Lists the active file or the newsgroups
file.
Changes the current article pointer to the
next article
Post an article via the specified posting
agent. If none has been specified, the reply will be '440 Posting not
implemented.'
Makes knewsd exit.
Sets the current article pointer.
Returns the overview data for the specified
range of articles.
OPTIONS¶
There is no need to spell out the entire option name, it is sufficient to give a unique prefix, such as -a for -active.- -spool directory
- This is the spool directory. It must be specified, either at compile time or at run time.
- -active file
- This is the active file containing the newsgroups and the high and low article counts. If this is not specifed, knews must be told not to try to read the active file.
- -newsgroups file
- This is the newsgroups file containing the group descriptions. It's entirely optional.
- -overview dir
- This can be used if the overview files reside in a different directory hierarchy than the spool directory.
- -update
- If this is set, knewsd will (try to) update any incomplete overview files it encounters. Not a good idea if you're reading a system wide spool directory.
- -postingagent agent
- If this is set, the 'agent' will be used to post articles.
A possible agent is 'exec inews -h'. This command is interpreted by the
shell, and it is important that it is exec'ed, so that knewsd may kill it
on a broken pipe to prevent posting of duplicate or truncated articles.
Knewsd will warn about this on startup.
AUTHOR¶
This software is Copyright 1995, 1996 by Karl-Johan Johnsson.SEE ALSO¶
knews(1), inews(1)1996 |