touch_newsgroup(1) General Commands Manual touch_newsgroup(1)NAME
touch_newsgroup - force leafnode to continue reading low-traffic newsgroups
SYNOPSIS
touch_newsgroup [-f groupsfile] [-h hostname] [-v] [newsgroups]
DESCRIPTION
touch_newsgroup is a Perl script which reads the last article in the specified newsgroups on the specified using NNTP.
This prevents leafnode or similar news-servers from marking those newsgroups as inactive because no-one is reading them.
Perl and the Net::NNTP module are required to use this program. On Debian systems these are avalible in the perl5 and libnet-perl pack-
ages.
OPTIONS -f groupsfile
Read newsgroup names from groupsfile in addition to any specified on command line. Use -f - to read from stdin.
-h hostname
Read newsgroups on host hostname (default 127.0.0.1)
-v Be verbose. Prints the number of the article it reads from each newsgroup.
newsgroups
names of newsgroups to read. May be omitted if a groupsfile is specified.
ENVIRONMENT
Requires Net::NNTP module (available in libnet from CPAN or the libnet-perl package). On Debian systems, this program will by default be
run daily on the list of newsgroups specified in /etc/news/leafnode/touch_groups if that file exists.
LIMITATIONS
Only one news-server is catered for, the IP address of which is hard-wired into the script as $nntp_host.
BUGS
dies if it encounters any problems.
AUTHOR
Copyright 1999 Jim Nicholson <j.nicholson@computer.org>
SEE ALSO leafnode(8)
18 June 1999 touch_newsgroup(1)
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GETLIST(1) General Commands Manual GETLIST(1)NAME
getlist - get a list from an NNTP server
SYNOPSIS
getlist [ -h host ] [ list [ pattern [ types ] ] ]
DESCRIPTION
The getlist program obtains a list from an NNTP server and sends it to standard output.
The list may be one of active, active.times, distributions, or newsgroups. These values request the active(5), active.times,
<pathetc in inn.conf>/distributions. or <pathdb in inn.conf>/newsgroups files, respectively.
OPTIONS -h If the ``-h'' flag is used, then the program connects to the server on the specified host. The default is to connect to the server
specified in the inn.conf(5) file.
If the list parameter is active, then the pattern and types parameters may be used to limit the output. When pattern is used, only active
lines with groups that match according to wildmat(3) are printed. When types is also given, only active lines that have a fourth field
starting with a character found in types are printed.
For example, the following command will obtain the one-line descriptions of all newsgroups found on UUNET:
getlist -h news.uu.net newsgroups
The following line lists all groups where local postings are permitted, are moderated or aliased:
getlist active '*' ym=
Note that the listing files other than the active file is a common extension to the NNTP protocol and may not be available on all servers.
HISTORY
Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> for InterNetNews.
SEE ALSO active(5), inn.conf(5), nnrpd(8), wildmat(3).
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