in.hosts(5)
NAME
in.hosts - newsx incoming host state
DESCRIPTION
- The in.hosts directory contains the necessary state infor
- mation for the
incoming news streams fetched by newsx(8). - For each incoming news source, there
- must be a
/var/spool/news/in.hosts/spoolname file that describes - what the latest
article is that has been fetched from that particular - host.
- If you want to get all news articles in all the groups de
- fined at your
local server, do nothing and let the file be constructed - automatically.
Other choices, such as using multiple cron(8) entries and - newsx(8) end
tags to control when certain newsgroups are fetched, or - using .newsrc
article numbers to avoid fetching articles you've already - seen, require
setting up the in.hosts file for the server by hand. - The format of this file is simple:
- Blank lines and lines starting with a '#' are treated as
- comments.
- Lines starting with a ':' indicate a tag for use with the
- newsx -e (end
tag) option. - Otherwise, each line consists of a newsgroup name and the
- first unread
article number, separated by whitespace. No article - number is the
same as zero, meaning that all available articles on the - server will be
read. - It is important to realize that there is one unique file
- belonging to
each remote newsserver, and that they should not be mixed. - If switching from reading news via an NNTP newsreader to
- fetching with
newsx, it is possible to use an existing .newsrc file - directly as the
initial /var/spool/news/in.hosts/spoolname file.
FILES
- /var/spool/news/in.hosts/spoolname
- Incoming host state file. There should be one
- of these per
external news server. - /var/spool/news/in.hosts/spoolname.tmp
- Incoming spool, temporary (while news is being
- pulled).
- /var/spool/news/in.hosts/spoolname.old
- Previous generation of the external host state
- file.
- /etc/newsx/spoolname.conf
Standard profile for specific newsspool. See - newsx.conf(5) for file
format.
AUTHOR
Egil Kvaleberg <egil@kvaleberg.no>