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PREFACE
=======
Original Author - Tim Smith (address unknown)
Maintainers -
March 1995 - Sven Goldt (address unknown)
July 1995 - Robert A. Yetman (bobyetman@worldnet.att.net)
Current Maintainer - bobyetman@worldnet.att.net
LOCATION
========
visit http://home.att.net/~bobyetman/index.html
to download the latest version or view the README file.
FTP Sites:
Site1 = sunsite.unc.edu
Path1 = /pub/Linux/system/news/transport
File1 = suck-3.10.1.tar.gz
INTRODUCTION
============
The primary use for suck is to feed a local NNTP server, without the
remote NNTP feeding you articles. It is designed for a small, partial
news feed. It is NOT designed to feed 10,000 groups and 3 Gigs of articles
a day.
This package contains software for copying news from an NNTP server to your
local machine, and copying replies back up to an NNTP server. It works
with most standard NNTP servers, including INN, CNEWS, DNEWS, and typhoon.
The suck/rpost combination allows you to run your own site, controlling
where you get your news, and where you post outgoing articles. Suck/rpost
use only standard NNTP commands that are used by your favorite news reader
(tin, xvnews, strn) such as POST and ARTICLE. If you can use tin or xvnews
against a NNTP site, than you can use Suck/Rpost.
suck Pull a small newsfeed from an NNTP server
lpost Gives one article fetched by suck to the local server.
rpost Posts article(s) to a remote NNTP server
testhost Check to see what commands your host recognizes or
get the active or new list.
lmove put articles in news/group/number format.
MAJOR CHANGES FROM 3.10.-> 3.10.1
* suck - bug fixes in the GDBM code, the XOVER code, and the embedded
Perl code if using perl 5.004 or older.
* rpost - added embedded perl filter capability.
MAJOR CHANGES FROM 3.9.4 -> 3.10.0
* suck - suck has a new form of killfiles, based on the XOVER command.
The key difference with these killfiles is that they are
processed before downloading the articles. They use the same
syntax as the old killfiles. See README.Xover for more details.
* suck - added code to allow you to define your own perl function
for killing messages, similar to the kill program routines.
If you're using an external filter, you'll want to consider
using this instead, as it's much faster.
See suck's man page for details.
* suck - added compile time option for use of GDBM for the chkhistory
routines.
* suck - added -G option. This changes the format of the BPS and count
output, to enable an external program, such as a GUI to parse.
See README.Gui for more details.
* suck - added -f option. This option forces a reconnect after deduping
of messages, and before downloading the messages. This is in
case deduping takes some time, and the remote end times out.
* suck - added code to cause error messages to go to debug.suck, if -D
selected.
* suck - added code to handle INN history lines beginning with [.
* suck - various fixes so code compiles on BEos and SunOS.
* suck - added some tests so that if killfiles evaluate to empty,
we throw them out.
* testhost - added -o option to run "list overview.fmt", to see
what XOVER command returns, and the -M option, in case
you need to run "mode reader" prior to the -o option.
MAILING LIST!
=============
Thanks to Motoharu Kubo (mkubo@3ware.co.jp), there is a mailing list for
suck. It is intended as a place to discuss problems, etc, plans, and
other issues related to suck. Its address is "suck-ml@3ware.co.jp".
To subscribe to the mailing list, send a mail message to majordomo@3ware.co.jp
with the message text reading "subscribe suck-ml"
NOTES:
======
Suck will not work with obsolete NNTP servers that can't handle the xhdr
command.
This code assumes an ANSI-compliant compiler, it will NOT work with old
compilers (Such as Sun's) which don't accept function prototypes. You could
try using the unprotoize program included in gcc, but then if you are going
to get that, why not just build gcc? :)
The Makefile assumes you are using GNU make, other makes may or may not work.
If your remote INN server slows drastically after 100 messages are downloaded,
and they are using INN 1.5.1 or newer, chances are they compiled INN with
"LIKE_PULLERS" set to DONT, which causes INN to put a small sleep before each message.
Talk to the SA for the system and see if they'll compile with "DO". Chances
are they didn't even know this option existed.
If you don't feel like going to the trouble of running INND/CNEWS/DNEWS/Typhoon, and
you don't need a full blown NNTP daemon running, then suck, along with tin
and a few batch files, can be used to read articles. The scripts should be
available from http://poboxes.com/rdebath. I don't use these, but supposedly
they do work.
Is suck Y2K compliant? As far as I can make it yes. The only program that uses
dates is testhost, and the date is sent to the remote NNTP host for the NEWGRP
command. I don't do any date calculations. Once servers take an 8 digit
date (right now its YYMMDD), I'll update testhost.
HOW-TO-USE
==========
1. run ./configure
2. If your history file is not a flat file, or if its not at
/usr/lib/news/history, edit the top of the Makefile.
3. Edit suck_config.h - lots of configurable stuff here
4. Make it. (make , make install)
5. READ THE MAN PAGES.
6. Create a sucknewsrc - which groups to download (see suck man pg).
If you have INND/CNEWS/DNEWS/PNEWS already running, then
just use 'suck remotehost -A -hl localhost', and the sucknewsrc
will be built for you. However, you might want to read the
man page, and create a suck.ignore file first.
7. Take a look at sample/get.news(.innxmit or .rnews)
These scripts show the whole scheme, from sucking news to
posting replies to your remote host. Use .innxmit if you
are using INND, or .rnews if you are using CNEWS.
PLANS FOR NEXT VERSION.
=======================
FUTURE PLANS.
========================
I'm open to suggestions.
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