newsrequeue(8) [debian man page]

NEWSREQUEUE(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    NEWSREQUEUE(8)

NAME

       newsrequeue - tool to rewrite batchfiles.

SYNOPSIS

       newsrequeue [ -a active ] [ -h history ] [ -d days ] [ -l ] [ -n newsfeeds ] [ input ]

DESCRIPTION

       Newsrequeue  can  be  used  to  rewrite	batchfiles after a system crash.  It operates in two modes.  In the first mode, it first reads the
       active (5) and newsfeeds(5) files to determine where the different newsgroups are to be distributed.  It then opens the	history  database.
       Once  the  files  are opened, newsrequeue reads from the specified input file, or standard input if no file is specified.  Each line should
       have a single Message-ID, surrounded in angle brackets; any other text on the line is ignored.  For example, the history file (or  trailing
       subset of it) is acceptable input to the program operating in this mode.

       Newsrequeue  uses  the  first two fields of the newsfeed entry -- the sitename and the excludes field, and the patterns and distribs field.
       It ignores all flags in the third field except for the ``N'' field, and also ignores the fourth field altogether.

       The output of newsrequeue consists of one line for each article that should be forwarded.  Each such  line  contains  the  Message-ID,  the
       filename, and the list of sites that should receive the article.  The output is suitable for piping into filechan(8).

       The second mode is used if the ``-l'' flag is given.  In this mode, it reads from the specified input file, or standard input if no file is
       specified.  Each line should look like an innd log entry.  It parses entries for accepted articles, looks up the Message-ID in the  history
       database to get the filename, and then scans the list of sites.

OPTIONS

       -a     To specify alternate locations for the active file, use the ``-a'' flag.

       -n     Use the ``-n'' flag to specify an alternate location for the newsfeeds(8) file.

       -h     Use the ``-h'' flag to specify a different location for the history database,

       -d     If the ``-d'' flag is used, then only articles that were received within the specified number of days will be processed.

       -l     Read innd type log entries instead of a history-file like entries.

HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.2, dated 1996/10/29.

SEE ALSO

       active(5), ctlinnd(8), dbz(3), filechan(8), history(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), makeactive(8), makehistory(8).

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MAKEACTIVE(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     MAKEACTIVE(8)

NAME

       makeactive - tool to recover Usenet active file.

SYNOPSIS

       makeactive [ -m ] [ -o ]

DESCRIPTION

       Makeactive  invokes  find(1)  to  get  a  list  of  all directories in the news spool tree, /var/spool/news.  It discards directories named
       lost+found as well as those that have a period in them.	It scans all other directories for all-numeric filenames and determines the  high-
       est  and lowest number.	The program's output is a set of active(5) file lines.	Because there is no way to know if a group is moderated or
       disabled, the fourth field of all entries will be y.  Also, mid-level directories that aren't newsgroups will also  created  as	newsgroups
       with no entries (for example, there is a ``comp.sources.unix'' group, but no ``comp.sources'').

OPTIONS

       -m     If  the  ``-m''  flag is given, then makeactive will attempt to adjust the highest and lowest article numbers wherever possible.	If
	      articles are found in a newsgroup, the numbers will reflect what what was found.	If no articles are found in a newsgroup, the  high
	      number  from the old file will be kept, and the low number will be set to one more then the high number.	This flag may only be used
	      if the ``-o'' flag is used.

       -o     If the ``-o'' flag is used, makeactive will read an existing active file for the list of group names and just renumber  all  groups.
	      It  will	preserve the fourth field of the active file if one is present.  This is analogous to the ctlinnd(8) ``renumber'' command,
	      except that innd(8) should throttled or not running.  Do not use this flag with output redirected to the standard active file!

EXIT STATUS

       Makeactive exits with non-zero status if any problems occurred.

EXAMPLES

       A typical way to use the program is with the following /bin/sh commands:
	      ctlinnd throttle "Rebuilding active file"
	      TEMP=${TMPDIR-/var/spool/news/in.coming/tmp}/act$$
	      if [ -f /var/lib/news/active ] ; then
		  if makeactive -o >${TEMP} ; then
		      mv ${TEMP} /var/lib/news/active
		  fi
	      else
		  if makeactive >${TEMP} ; then
		      # Edit to restore moderated
		      # and aliased groups.
		      ...
		      mv ${TEMP} /var/lib/news/active
		  fi
	      fi
	      ctlinnd reload active "New active file"
	      ctlinnd go ''

HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.3, dated 1996/10/29.

SEE ALSO

       active(5), ctlinnd(8), dbz(3), filechan(8), history(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), makehistory(8), newsrequeue(8).

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