Example configuration ===================== On chiark, we have newsfeeds entries that look like this: eternal-september/eternal-september.org\ :!*,uk.*,cam.*,ed.*,alt.*,..(details elided)....\ :Tf,Wnm: the.earth.li/earthli\ :!*,....(details elided)...\ :Tf,Wnm:the.earth.li This specifies innd log feed file /var/spool/news/outgoing/eternal-september /var/spool/news/outgoing/the.earth.li We have an /etc/news/ducts.table containing entries like this: the.earth.li eternal-september feeder.eternal-september.org --port 433 The news user's crontab has lines like this: 10-59/20 * * * * innduct-forall 'ulimit -c 10240; innduct -q !duct' 36 3 * * * find /var/spool/news/outgoing/ -type f -name '*_backlog_*' -mtime +60 -print0 | xargs -0 rm