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updatenews: post articles from outgoing spool directory and prefetch newsgroups

NAME

updatenews - post articles from outgoing spool directory and prefetch newsgroups

SYNOPSIS

updatenews [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -a ] [ -g ] [ -o ] [ -l ] [ -w # ]

DESCRIPTION

Updatenews submits all those articles that have been stored within NewsCache's outgoing-queue. If necessary the ActiveDB will be updated (see the -a option to force the update). Afterwards retrieves all the articles from the newsgroups listed in the PrefetchFile (This can be configured in newscache.conf).

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-v, --version

Show version of program.

-a, --active

Force the prefetch the active data base. Updatenews first invalidate the ActiveDB to force the update.

-g, --group

Prefetch whole newsgroups.

-o, --over

Only prefetch the overview database.

-l, --lock-group

Always lock the newsgroup while prefetching it. This improves the performance of update- news slightly, but nobody else can read this newsgroup while prefetching.

-w, --workers #

Use # workers for prefetching. Each worker is assigned its own newsgroup to prefetch.

FILES

/etc/newscache.conf
/usr/sbin/newscache
/usr/sbin/newscacheclean
/usr/sbin/newscacheclean
/usr/sbin/updatenews

AUTHORS

1997-2000 Thomas Gschwind <tom [at] infosys.tuwien.ac.at>
2001-2004 Herbert Straub <h.straub [at] aon.at>

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <newscache [at] linuxhacker.org>.

COPYRIGHT

NewsCache is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.