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-This directory contains unsupported contributions to INN. Most of these
-programs are of interest to a limited set of sites, require some manual
-modifications to make work, and/or are separately maintained independent
-of INN. Programs in here may or may not have been tested on the latest
-version of INN, so keep that in mind when trying them out. The INN
-developers may not be able to answer bug reports for these utilities; it's
-best to send them to the original author.
-
-Volunteers who would like to take particularly useful applications in this
-directory and make them suitable for inclusion in INN proper are heartily
-encouraged, but discuss this on inn-workers@isc.org. Sometimes there's a
-reason why this hasn't already been done or something specific that's
-needed before they can be included.
-
-Type "make <program>" to build any of the following programs and then copy
-the binary to somewhere on your PATH to use it. For details on what each
-program does, see below, as well as the comments at the beginning of each
-file (if any).
-
-In addition to these files, also see the contrib section of the INN FTP
-site at <ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/contrib/> for more software designed
-to work with INN.
-
- -------------------------
-
-archivegz
-
- A compressing version of archive, writing out .gz files instead of
- plain text files. May not work with the storage API without some
- changes to use sm.
-
-backlogstat
-
- Prints informations about the current state of innfeed's backlog, if
- any.
-
-backupfeed
-
- Another version of suck or pullnews that downloads posts from a remote
- news server and offers them to the local news server.
-
-cleannewsgroups
-
- Performs various cleanups on the newsgroups file.
-
-count_overview.pl
-
- Counts the groups in a bunch of Xref records.
-
-delayer
-
- Sits in a data stream and delays it by some constant period of time.
- Mostly useful for delaying innfeed feeds to allow cancels a chance to
- remove articles before innfeed sends them to your peers. See the
- beginning of the file for an example of how to use it.
-
-expirectl
-
- Automatically builds expire.ctl based on current available disk space
- and a template, adjusting the expiration times of groups based on a
- weight and the available space. Uses a template expire.ctl.ctl file;
- see the end of expirectl.c for a sample.
-
-findreadgroups
-
- Scans the news log files and generates a file giving readership counts
- by newsgroup. Used by makeexpctl and makestorconf.
-
-fixhist
-
- Performs various cleanups and sanity checks on the history database.
-
-innconfcheck
-
- Merges your inn.conf settings with the inn.conf man page to make it
- easier to be sure that your settings match what you want. Edit this
- script to add the correct paths to the man page; see the comments at
- the beginning of this script.
-
-makeexpctl
-
- Generates an expire.ctl based on what newsgroups are actually read.
- Uses data generated by findreadgroups. This script will require
- editing before being usable for your server.
-
-makestorconf
-
- Generates a storage.conf file putting frequently read newsgroups into
- timecaf rather than CNFS. Uses data gefnerated by findreadgroups.
- This script will require editing before being usable for your server.
-
-mkbuf
-
- Creates a CNFS cycbuff; see the comments at the beginning of
- this script.
-
-mlockfile
-
- Locks files given on the command line into memory using mlock (only
- tested on Solaris). Useful primarily for locking the history files
- (history.hash and history.index) into memory on a system with
- sufficient memory to speed history lookups in innd. This seems to
- help some systems quite a lot and others not at all.
-
-newsresp
-
- Opens an NNTP channel to a server and takes a peek at various response
- times. Can check the round-trip time and the history lookup time.
- See the comments at the beginning of the source for more details.
-
-pullart
-
- Attempts to pull news articles out of CNFS cycbuffs. Useful for
- emergency recoveries.
-
-reset-cnfs
-
- Clears a CNFS cycbuff; see the comments at the beginning of
- this script.
-
-respool
-
- Takes a list of tokens on stdin and respools them, by retrieving the
- article, storing it again, and then calling SMcancel on the previous
- instance of the article. Note that after running this program, you'd
- need to rebuild the history and overview, since it doesn't update
- either.
-
-showtoken
-
- Decodes storage API tokens.
-
-stathist
-
- Parses and summarizes the log files created by the history profiling
- code.
-
-thdexpire
-
- A dynamic expire daemon for timehash and timecaf spools. It should
- be started along with innd and periodically looks if news spool space
- is getting tight, and then frees space by removing articles until
- enough is free. It is an adjunct to (not a replacement for) INN's
- expire program.
-
-tunefeed
-
- Given two active files, attempts to produce a good set of wildmat
- patterns for newsfeeds to minimize the number of rejects. For full
- documentation, run "perldoc tunefeed".
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