newsq(1)

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version 1.12.0 · 3 versions
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💖 newsq(1) — the Leafnode user's manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about newsq — she's the little tool that lets you peek at your Leafnode news queue 👀✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

newsq — view the leafnode news queue 🗞️💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

newsq [-f]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, newsq spits out a summary of the news that's chilling in leafnode's out.going queue (or, if you pass -f, in the failed.postings directory instead). 🎀

the out.going queue is where news that's been posted locally on your site hangs out while it's waiting — it has not yet been uploaded to the upstream news server. it's giving "pending, bestie, pending" ⏳

the failed.postings directory is a different vibe entirely: it holds news articles that got rejected by upstream servers 😭 and here's the important part — these will not be retried automatically. nope. not ever. on their own they just sit there. periodt.

but!! you can move them to the out.going queue manually — with the mv(1) command — and then fetchnews will retry them the next time it runs 🫶 this is genuinely so useful if the posting failed because the upstream server was just having temporary difficulties, like it was going through something, yk?

The queue is printed in the order it is read from the disk. 📀 The output is not explicitly sorted. (This matches GNU ls -U behaviour.) iykyk 💀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -f — print the contents of the failed.postings directory instead. 🌈 This option was introduced with leafnode v1.9.20.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Joey Hess, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. 🐧💖

It was amended to by Matthias Andree. ✨

ngl the author section is short but iconic. respect the elders 🫡

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌟 no cap. this is leafnode 1.12.0, the newsq(1) page, and honestly? she ate. 💅🎀 go forth and check your queue 🦋✨

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