NNRPD.TRACK(5)

💅 nnrpd.track — bestie edition

okay so this is the manual page for nnrpd.track from InterNetNews, and it's literally just a little file that says which hosts we're keeping an eye on 👀. Let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

nnrpd.track — specify hosts to be tracked by nnrpd

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This file lives in pathetc, and it's basically the guest list of which hosts get their whole vibe recorded during an nnrpd session 📝. The nnrpd server reads it when it's first spawned by innd — but only if readertrack in inn.conf is true. If that's not true? Then this file is not used at all, not even a little bit, it's giving unused 🫠.

Each entry is one host specification per line, and every line has exactly two fields separated by a colon:

host:identity

The first field is either one of the FQDNs of a host, or a domain name (written in the form *.domain.com).

The second field is just a segment of text — a lil label you can use to more easily identify the client, typically an e-mail address or some other identifying mark 🏷️.

Every post from a tracked host gets an entry associated with identity in the log message recorded to the pathlog/tracklogs directory, and every posted article gets saved in the pathlog/trackposts directory. So yeah, receipts are being kept 💀.

An example of an nnrpd.track file is:

nasty.foo.com:nasty@foo.com
*.bar.com:VeryNastyClient

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🦋 HISTORY 🦋

Written by Steve Carrie <stephenc@uk.uu.net> for InterNetNews. Rewritten into POD by Julien Elie. iconic collaborative effort, no cap 👑

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

inn.conf(5), nnrpd(8).

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and that's the whole page bestie 🫶 — this one's from INN 2.7.4, dated 2022-07-10, so go forth and track responsibly 🎀💜