NEWSREQUEUE(8)

💖 NEWSREQUEUE 💖

ok so bestie, this is a page from the System Manager's Manual, and the star of the show is newsrequeue — a tool to rewrite batchfiles. yes literally that's its whole job description and it EATS. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

newsrequeue — tool to rewrite batchfiles. that's it. that's the gig. no cap. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

newsrequeue [ -a active ] [ -h history ] [ -d days ] [ -l ] [ -n
newsfeeds ] [ input ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so picture this: your system just crashed 😭 and now you gotta rewrite batchfiles. enter newsrequeue. it operates in two modes, and both of them are lowkey iconic.

Mode one (the default vibe): it first reads the active(5) and newsfeeds(5) files to figure out where all the different newsgroups are supposed to be distributed. then it opens the history database. once all the files are open, newsrequeue reads from the specified input file — or standard input if you didn't specify a file, bestie, it's flexible like that.

each line should have a single Message-ID, surrounded in angle brackets; any other text on the line is straight up ignored. for example? the history file (or a trailing subset of it) is totally acceptable input to the program when it's operating in this mode. slay. ✨

newsrequeue uses the first two fields of the newsfeed entry — that's the sitename and the excludes field — plus the patterns and distribs field. it ignores all flags in the third field except for the `N' field, and it also ignores the fourth field altogether. not its business, not its problem. 💀

the output of newsrequeue consists of one line for each article that should be forwarded. each such line contains the Message-ID, the filename, and the list of sites that should receive the article. and the best part? that output is suitable for piping into filechan(8). it's giving pipeline perfection. 🔥

Mode two: this one kicks in if the `-l' flag is given. in this mode, it reads from the specified input file, or standard input if no file is specified. each line should look like an innd log entry. it parses entries for accepted articles, looks up the Message-ID in the history database to get the filename, and then scans the list of sites. main character energy fr fr. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -a — to specify alternate locations for the active file, use the `-a' flag. simple as that.
• -n — use the `-n' flag to specify an alternate location for the newsfeeds(8) file.
• -h — use the `-h' flag to specify a different location for the history database,
• -d — if the `-d' flag is used, then only articles that were received within the specified number of days will be processed. like a little time filter, obsessed.
• -l — read innd type log entries instead of a history-file like entries. mode two activated. 🫶

📜 HISTORY 📜

written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. this is revision 1.2, dated 1996/10/29. a legend. 🙈

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

active(5), ctlinnd(8), dbz(3), filechan(8), history(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), makeactive(8), makehistory(8).

okay that's the whole page bestie, and yeah — it's NEWSREQUEUE(8), from the System Manager's Manual, brought to you by InterNetNews, revision 1.2, dated 1996/10/29. periodt. 💖✨