NAME¶
news - display system news
SYNOPSIS¶
news [-adDeflnpvxs] [[article1] [article2] ..]
DESCRIPTION¶
The
news command keeps you informed of news concerning the system. Each
news item is contained in a separate file in the
/var/lib/sysnews
directory. Anyone having write permission to this directory can create a news
file.
If you run the news command without any flags, it displays every unread file in
the
/var/lib/sysnews directory.
Each file is preceded by an appropriate header. To avoid reporting old news, the
news command stores a currency time. The news command considers your currency
time to be the date the
$HOME/.news_time file was last modified. Each
time you read the news, the modification time of this file changes to that of
the reading. Only news item files posted after this time are considered
unread.
OPTIONS¶
- -a, --all
- Display all news, also the already read news.
- -d, --datestamp
- Add a date stamp to each article name printed. this can
only be used with the -nl flags.
- -D, --datefmt <fmt>
- Specify a date format, see the strftime(3) man page
for more details. the default format is (%b %d %Y)
- -f, --newsdir <dir>
- Read news from an alternate newsdir.
- -l, --oneperline
- One article name per line.
- -n, --names
- Only show the names of news articles.
- -p, --page
- Pipe articles through $PAGER or more(1) if
the $PAGER environment variable is not set.
- -s, --articles
- Reports the number of news articles.
MAINTAINER OPTIONS¶
- -e, --expire #
- Expire news older than # days.
- -x, --exclude a,b,c
- A comma separated list of articles which may not be
expired. if a file named .noexpire exists in the
/var/lib/sysnews direcory, filenames are read from it also. names
in this file may be comma separated, and/or one per line.
AUTHOR¶
Charles, <int@link.xs4all.nl>