touch_newsgroup1
Force leafnode to continue reading low-traffic newsgroups
Usage
touch_newsgroup [-f
groupsfile]
[-h
hostname]
[-v]
[newsgroups]
Overview
touch_newsgroup is a Perl script which reads the last article in the specified newsgroups on the specified using NNTP.
This prevents leafnode or similar news-servers from marking those newsgroups as inactive because no-one is reading them.
Perl and the Net::NNTP module are required to use this program. On Debian systems these are avalible in the perl5 and libnet-perl packages.
Options
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-f groupsfile -
Read newsgroup names from groupsfile in addition to any specified on command line. Use -f - to read from stdin.
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-h hostname -
Read newsgroups on host hostname (default 127.0.0.1)
-
-v -
Be verbose. Prints the number of the article it reads from each newsgroup.
- newsgroups
-
names of newsgroups to read. May be omitted if a groupsfile is specified.
Environment
Requires Net::NNTP module (available in libnet from CPAN or the libnet-perl package). On Debian systems, this program will by default be run daily on the list of newsgroups specified in /etc/news/leafnode/touch_groups if that file exists.
Limitations
Only one news-server is catered for, the IP address of which is hard-wired into the script as $nntp_host.
Releases
13 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 1 time.