NNTPSEND.CTL(5)

💌 NNTPSEND.CTL(5) — the nntpsend.ctl page, but make it make sense

okay so this is a page from the InterNetNews Documentation bestie, and we're talking about nntpsend.ctl today 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

nntpsend.ctl — literally the list of sites you're feeding via nntpsend 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The file pathetc/nntpsend.ctl is where you write down the default list of sites to be fed by nntpsend. Think of it as your little roster, your main-character contact list 💖

Rules of the vibe, no cap:

• Comments start with a number sign (#) and keep going all the way to the end of the line. So go ahead, annotate, live your truth.
• Blank lines and comments get ignored. They're just there for aesthetics 🦋
• Every other line should have four fields separated by a colon. Four. Not three, not five. Four 🫶

Let me break down the four fields like we're doing a group project:

1. Field one — the name of the site, exactly as specified in the newsfeeds file. Match it, don't freestyle it.
2. Field two — the hostname or IP address of the remote site. Where the packets are going, basically ✈️
3. Field three — if it's non-empty, this specifies the default head truncation size of the batch file. If this field is empty, then no truncation is performed, periodt. And it comes in two flavours:
   • of the form maxsize-truncsize, in which case it gets passed to shrinkfile as -m maxsize -s truncsize
   • otherwise it's of the form truncsize, in which case it gets passed as -s truncsize
4. Field four — some default flags passed to innxmit. Quick notes before you go wild here 🙈:
   • the flag -a is always given to innxmit, so you don't need to put it here
   • if no -t flag is given in this field or on the nntpsend command line, then -t 180 will be given to innxmit

fr fr, go look at nntpsend(8) if you want to see an actual example of an nntpsend.ctl config file — it's right there waiting for you 👑

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🦋 HISTORY 🦋

Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> for InterNetNews. Converted to POD by Julien Elie. iconic collaboration honestly 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• innxmit(8)
• newsfeeds(5)
• nntpsend(8)
• shrinkfile(1)

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that's the whole page bestie, you ate it up 💅✨ — this one's from INN 2.7.4, dated 2022-07-10, and yes the manual name really is NNTPSEND.CTL(5) so now you know 🎀🫶