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PULLNEWS(8)					      PULLNEWS(8)

NAME
       pullnews	 -  a  perl script for pulling news from one news
       machine and feeding it to another.

SYNOPSIS
       pullnews [ -c config ] [ -s downstream-server ] [ -q  ]	[
       remote-server ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       pullnews is run as a regular user process. It reads a con-
       fig file in the	users  home  directory	(normally  called
       .pullnews) and connects to the upstream servers defined in
       there as a reader client. You may  specifiy  hostnames  on
       the  command line to limit the set of remote hosts it con-
       nects to, but each host must be listed  in  the	.pullnews
       file.

       For  each server it connects to it pulls over articles and
       feeds them to the downstream (local) server via the  IHAVE
       (feeder) NNTP command. This means the computer pullnews is
       run on must have feeding access	to  the	 downstream  news
       host.

       pullnews is designed for very small sites and is not meant
       for reverse-feeding large feeds.

       You  must  have	Graham	Barr's	Net::NNTP   perl   module
       installed  on your system. This is part of the libnet bun-
       dle and can  be	found  on  CPAN	 or  from  Graham's  site
       http://www.connect.net/gbarr/

OPTIONS
       -c     Normally	the config file is stored in $HOME/.pull-
	      news for the user running the pullnews program. The
	      ``-c'' flag lets you change that.

       -s     Normally	 pullnews   will  feed	the  articles  it
	      retrieves to the news server  running  on	 ``local-
	      host''. The ``-s'' flag lets you change that.

       -q     The ``-q'' flag can be used to make things run more
	      quietly.

CONFIG FILE
       The config file for pullnews is a series of sets of  lines
       describing  the upstream hosts to connect to and the news-
       groups to get articles from. A host line	 has  no  leading
       white  space  and just has the name of the host to connect
       to. Group lines com after a host	 line  and  have  leading
       white space followed by the group name.

       pullnews	 will  update the config file to include the time
       the group was last checked and the highest numbered  arti-
       cle   successfully   retrieved	and   transfered  to  the

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PULLNEWS(8)					      PULLNEWS(8)

       downstream server.

       A sample configuration file might look like:
	      # Format group date high
	      data.pa.vix.com
		      rec.bicycles.racing 908086612 783
		      rec.humor.funny 908086613 18
		      comp.programming.threads
	      nnrp.vix.com
		      comp.std.lisp

       The group entries for  the  two	rec.*  groups  have  been
       updated by an earlier run by pullnews.

HISTORY
       pullnews	 was  written  by James Brister for INN.  This is
       revision 1.1.2.1, dated 1999/06/12.

BUGS
       pullnews is very simple and is lacking in  more	sophisti-
       cated  features	(like  killing	articles  based	 on user-
       defined conditions) that better pull feeder most certainly
       have.  It also doesn't keep or log much detail on articles
       transferred.

       Due to a limitation in the Net::NNTP perl module,  one  of
       the  functions  in  there is redefined inside the pullnews
       source. A future release of the libnet packages	will  fix
       that.

SEE ALSO
       ctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), shlock(1).

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