updatenews(8)

📦 version 1.2, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 updatenews — the group chat edition 💖

okay bestie, so updatenews lives in section 8 of the System Manager's Manual (that's the "admin commands" section, iykyk). She's the one who posts articles from the outgoing spool directory and prefetches newsgroups. two jobs, one icon. 👑

✨ NAME ✨

updatenews — post articles from outgoing spool directory and prefetch newsgroups

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

updatenews [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -a ] [ -g ] [ -o ] [ -l ] [ -w # ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea. updatenews submits all those articles that have been stored within NewsCache's outgoing-queue. like, every single one, she's not leaving anybody on read. 💅

If it's necessary, the ActiveDB will be updated — and yes, you can use the -a option to force that update if you're feeling impatient.

Afterwards she retrieves all the articles from the newsgroups listed in the PrefetchFile. (and bestie, that's configurable in newscache.conf, so go off. 🎀)

💅 OPTIONS 💅

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). A summary of options is included below.

  • -h, --help — Show summary of options. she's helpful like that 🫶
  • -v, --version — Show version of program. gotta know what era you're in ✨
  • -a, --active — Force the prefetch the active data base. updatenews first invalidate the ActiveDB to force the update. lowkey aggressive, highkey effective 🔥
  • -g, --group — Prefetch whole newsgroups. the whole thing. no crumbs. 🍓
  • -o, --over — Only prefetch the overview database. just the overview, nothing more, she's being selective 💅
  • -l, --lock-group — Always lock the newsgroup while prefetching it. This improves the performance of updatenews slightly, but nobody else can read this newsgroup while prefetching. ⚠️ so like, it's faster but it's giving "do not disturb" energy and nobody else gets in. your call, bestie.
  • -w, --workers # — Use # workers for prefetching. Each worker is assigned its own newsgroup to prefetch. it's giving squad goals, everyone got their own assignment 🌈

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/newscache.conf
  • /usr/bin/newscache
  • /usr/bin/newscacheclean
  • /usr/bin/newscacheclean
  • /usr/bin/updatenews
yes bestie, /usr/bin/newscacheclean is listed twice in the original. not a typo on my end, I'm just keeping it 100 with you. 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

newscache.conf(5), newscacheclean(8), updatenews(8).

🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

  • 1997-2000 Thomas Gschwind <tom@infosys.tuwien.ac.at>
  • 2001-2004 Herbert Straub <h.straub@aon.at>

legends, honestly. the way they carried this whole thing. 🫶

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report bugs to <newscache@linuxhacker.org>.

NewsCache is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

fr fr, NO warranty. not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. read it and weep, bestie. 😭

and that's the whole page, no cap. this one's dated June 2004, it's updatenews(8) from the System Manager's Manual, and it came straight out of the NewsCache source. slay, go prefetch something. 💖✨🎀

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