- .TH BBSNNRP 8 "16 Jul 1995" "NCTU CSIE" "Kuhn's Utility Reference Manual"
- .UC E 86-1
- .SH NAME
- bbsnnrp - BBS Network News Reading Program
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B bbsnnrp
- [-fBh|?fP]
- [-fBvfP]
- [-fBcfP]
- [-fBrfP fI[prot:]remotehostfP]
- [-fBpfP fIport|pathfP]
- [-fBwfP fIsecondsfP]
- [-fBnfP]
- [-fBafP fImax_artsfP]
- [-fBsfP fImax_statsfP]
- [-fBtfP fIstdin|nntpfP]
- [-fBgfP fInewsgroupsfP]
- [-fBmfP fImoderatorfP]
- [-fBofP fIorganizationfP]
- [-fBffP fItrust_userfP]
- [-fBFfP fItrust_userfP]
- nntpserver activefile
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- .B Bbsnnrp
- is a program to extract news articles from remote NNTP server and
- send(feed) articles extracted to another server (remotely or locally) by
- talking IHAVE or POST nntp protocol.
- .PP
- When startup,
- .I BBSnnrp
- tries to connect two servers, one is the news article supplier
- and the other is the article consumer.
- .SH OPTIONS
- .TP
- .BI -h|?
- Show help messages.
- .TP
- .B -v
- Verbose mode. All protocol transactions are logged. Default=wont.
- .TP
- .B -c
- Reset active files only. Don't receive artiles. Default=will.
- .TP
- .BI -r " [prot:]remotehostname"
- Send articles to remotehost. Default=IHAVE:localhost
- .I remotehostname
- is the host where you want to send articles.
- .I prot
- is the NNTP protocol to send articles to. Current supports are
- .I IHAVE
- and
- .I POST
- .
- .TP
- .BI -p " port_no|path_name"
- Send articles to remotehost in port_no. Default=7777. Or
- Send articles to localhost in path_name. Default=~bbs/innd/.innbbsd.
- .I port_no
- is the port number you want to connect.
- .I path_name
- is the path of a socket file.
- .TP
- .BI -w " seconds"
- Wait for seconds and run infinitely. Default=only one shot.
- .I seconds
- is the time to wait and greator than 60.
- .TP
- .B -n
- Don't ask innbbsd server and stat articles.
- .TP
- .BI -a " max_arts"
- Maximum number of articles received for a group each time. Default=100.
- .I max_arts
- is the maximum number of articles you want to receive.
- .TP
- .BI -s " max_stats"
- Maximum number of articles stated for a group each time. Default=1000.
- .I max_stats
- is the maximum number of articles you want to stat.
- .TP
- .BI -t " stdin|nntp"
- Type of article sending (feeding). Default=nntp.
- You can feed extracted articles to
- .I nntp
- socket strem or to
- .I stdin
- directly.
- .TP
- .BI -g " newsgroups"
- When get feed from stdin,
- .I newsgroups
- is the pseudo newsgroup name.
- When get feed from nntp, only handle
- .I newsgroups
- in the active file.
- .TP
- .BI -m " moderator"
- You can add "Approved:
- .I moderator
- "
- to article headers when get stdin feed..
- .TP
- .BI -o " organization"
- Add "Organization:
- .I organization
- "
- to article headers when get stdin feed.
- .TP
- .BI -f " trust_user (From: trust_user)"
- Accept stdin feed only when "From: from-user" is the same as
- .I trust_user
- .
- .TP
- .BI -F " trust_user (From trust_user)"
- Accept stdin feed only when "From from-user" is the same as
- .I trust_user
- .
- .SH FILES
- .PD 0
- .TP
- .BR ~bbs/innd/activefile, ~bbs/innd/bbsnnrp.log
- .PD
- .SH AUTHOR
- Shih-Kun Huang (skhuang@csie.nctu.edu.tw)
- .SH BUGS
- Only servers supporting
- .I STAT
- protocol can process
- .I cancel
- efficiently.
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .BR innbbsd (8)
- .BR newsfeeds.bbs (5)
- .BR nodelist.bbs (5)
- .BR bntplink (8)