Do not try to use the streaming extensions to NNTP (for use eg if the
peer can't cope when we send MODE STREAM).
.TP
-.BI \-\-inndconf= FILE
+.BI \-\-no-filemon
+Do not try to use the file change monitoring support to watch for
+writes by innd to the feed file; poll it instead. (If file monitoring
+is not compiled in, this option just downgrades the log message which
+warns about this situation.)
+.TP
+.BR \-C | \-\-inndconf= \fIFILE\fR
Read
.I FILE
instead of the default
.BR inn.conf .
-This is currently only used if
-.I feedfile
-is not specified, to find the value
-.I pathoutgoing
-for constructing the feedfile name from the site name.
.TP
.BI \-\-port= PORT
Connect to port
.TP
.BI \-\-period-interval= PERIOD-INTERVAL
Specifies wakup interval and period granularity.
-innduct wakes up every PERIOD-INTERVAL to do various housekeeping
-checks. Also, many of the timeout and rescan intervals (those
-specified in this manual as
+innduct wakes up every
+.I PERIOD-INTERVAL
+to do various housekeeping checks. Also, many of the timeout and
+rescan intervals (those specified in this manual as
+.IR PERIOD )
+are rounded up to the next multiple of
+.IR PERIOD-INTERVAL .
.TP
.BI \-\-connection-timeout= TIME
How long to allow for a connection setup attempt before giving up.
up. The default is
.BR 100s .
.TP
+.BI \-\-feedfile-poll= TIME
+How often to poll the feedfile for new articles written by innd
+if file monitoring
+.RI ( inotify
+or equivalent) is not available. (When file monitoring is available,
+there is no need for periodic checks and we wake immediately up
+whenever the feedfile changes.)
+The default is
+.BR 5s .
+.TP
.BI \-\-no-check-proportion= PERCENT
If the moving average of the proportion of articles being accepted
(rather than declined) by the peer exceeds this value, innduct uses
.IX Item inn.conf
Used to find
.IR pathoutgoing
-if none is specified.
+if none is specified, for finding how to communicate with innd,
+and also for
+.IR sourceaddress
+and/or
+.IR sourceaddress6 .
.SH HISTORY
Written by Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
.SH "SEE ALSO"