SLRN_GETDESCS(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

slrn_getdescs — the little script that does a weekly glow-up on your newsgroups descriptions file ✨

It's page 8 of the System Manager's Manual, bestie, so you know it's for the sysadmin girlies 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

slrn_getdescs [interval]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so listen 💖 — slrn_getdescs is a script, and the whole point of it is that you run it periodically so it can freshen up slrn's newsgroup descriptions file, which lives right here:

/var/lib/slrn/newsgroups.dsc

That's the file. That's the mission. 🫶

Now here's the part where it's lowkey iconic: you can run slrn_getdescs as often as you want. Like, spam it. Go feral. 🙈 But it will only actually update the file once per week — or however many days you specify with the interval parameter, if you use it. So it's not gonna churn the file every single time you poke it, no cap. It just vibes and waits its turn 💅

Not me running it every five minutes and getting the same file back... it said what it said 😭

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

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

And that's the whole page, bestie — slrn_getdescs(8), straight out of the System Manager's Manual. Go update those descriptions, periodt 💖✨🌸