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.\" $Revision: 2.0 $
.TH GET-NEWS 8
.SH NAME
get-news - Debian Suck front end
.SH SYNOPSIS
.I get-news
[
.BI
sitename
]
[
.BI \-h
]
[
.BI \-outgoingfile
filename
]
[
.BI \-userid
userid
]
[
.BI \-password
password
]
[
.BI \-noauth
]
[
.BI \-port
port
]
[
.BI \-server
sitename
]
[
.BI \-q
]
[
.BI \-getonly
]
[
.BI \-postonly
]
[
.BI \-timestamp
]
[
.BI \-verbose
]
sitename
The name of the site get-news should connect. If this parameter is
specified, it will be used for multiple purposes, setting:
\- the DNS name of the NNTP host which get-news will connect to
download and upload articles
\- the suffix for some configuration files get-news will use
(sucknewsrc, active-ignore, suckkillfile)
\- the news feed name (name of the file in /var/spool/news/outgoing
which contain list of the articles to be send)
For example, running the command get-news news.provider.site
causes the script to contact news.provider.site, send messages listed
in /var/spool/news/outgoing/news.provider.site (according to the feed
of this name defined in /etc/news/newsfeeds) and use
/etc/suck/sucknewsrc.news.provider.site as list of newsgroups,
/etc/suck/suckkillfile.news.provider.site as killfile and (in case -A
or -AL is specified in get-news.conf) suit newsgroup list to
/etc/suck/active-ignore.news.provider.site.
When the sitename parameter is missing (like when get-news is run
without parameters), get-news uses parameters from get-news.conf
(remoteserver to specify the host, outgoingfile to specify the feed)
and no-suffix configuration files (sucknewsrc, active-ignore,
suckkillfile).
\-outgoingfile filename
This option tells get-news to use an alternate remote server outgoing
articles filename, instead of the default, the remote server name.
\-userid userid
\-password password
These two options let you specify a userid and password, if your NNTP server
requires them.
\-noauth
This option tells get-news to not send userid and password,
even if they are specified in /etc/suck/get-news.conf.
\-port port
This option let you specify a port number, if your NNTP server has
a non standard one.
\-server sitename
This option tells get-news to use sitename as your local NNTP server,
instead of the default, localhost.
\-q
Be quiet.
Do not display the BPS and article count messages during download.
Multiple \-q's makes get\-news shut up
\-getonly
Only get new news, don't post anything outgoing.
\-postonly
Only post outgoing news, don't get anything.
\-timestamp
Add timestamps to the get-news.log and verbose output.
\-verbose
Give more messages about what get-news is doing. Specified multiple times,
debugging output is enabled.
.SH GET-NEWS.CONF
.PP
Suck looks for a file
.I get-news.conf
in /etc/suck to initialize some defaults and set some options that are not
available on the command line.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
suck(1), testhost(1), rpost(1), lpost(1).
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