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-.IX Title "PULLNEWS 1"
-.TH PULLNEWS 1 "2008-06-05" "INN 2.4.5" "InterNetNews Documentation"
-.SH "NAME"
-pullnews \- Pull news from multiple news servers and feed it to another
-.SH "SYNOPSIS"
-.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
-\&\fBpullnews\fR [\fB\-hnqRx\fR] [\fB\-b\fR \fIfraction\fR] [\fB\-c\fR \fIconfig\fR] [\fB\-C\fR \fIwidth\fR]
-[\fB\-d\fR \fIlevel\fR] [\fB\-f\fR \fIfraction\fR] [\fB\-F\fR \fIfakehop\fR] [\fB\-g\fR \fIgroups\fR]
-[\fB\-G\fR \fInewsgroups\fR] [\fB\-H\fR \fIheaders\fR] [\fB\-k\fR \fIcheckpt\fR] [\fB\-l\fR \fIlogfile\fR]
-[\fB\-m\fR \fIheader_pats\fR] [\fB\-M\fR \fInum\fR] [\fB\-N\fR \fItimeout\fR] [\fB\-p\fR \fIport\fR]
-[\fB\-P\fR \fIhop_limit\fR] [\fB\-Q\fR \fIlevel\fR] [\fB\-r\fR \fIfile\fR] [\fB\-s\fR \fIto-server\fR[:\fIport\fR]]
-[\fB\-S\fR \fImax-run\fR] [\fB\-t\fR \fIretries\fR] [\fB\-T\fR \fIconnect-pause\fR] [\fB\-w\fR \fInum\fR]
-[\fB\-z\fR \fIarticle-pause\fR] [\fB\-Z\fR \fIgroup-pause\fR] [\fIfrom-server\fR ...]
-.SH "REQUIREMENTS"
-.IX Header "REQUIREMENTS"
-The \f(CW\*(C`Net::NNTP\*(C'\fR module must be installed. This module is available as part
-of the libnet distribution and comes with recent versions of Perl. For
-older versions of Perl, you can download it from <http://www.cpan.org/>.
-.SH "DESCRIPTION"
-.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
-\&\fBpullnews\fR reads a config file in the running user's home directory
-(normally called \fI~/.pullnews\fR) and connects to the upstream servers
-given there as a reader client. By default, it connects to all servers
-listed in the configuration file, but you can limit \fBpullnews\fR to
-specific servers by listing them on the command line: a whitespace-separated
-list of server names can be specified, like \fIfrom-server\fR for one of them.
-For each server it connects to, it pulls over articles and feeds them to the
-destination server via the \s-1IHAVE\s0 or \s-1POST\s0 commands. This means that the system
-\&\fBpullnews\fR is run on must have feeding access to the destination news server.
-.PP
-\&\fBpullnews\fR is designed for very small sites that do not want to bother
-setting up traditional peering and is not meant for handling large feeds.
-.SH "OPTIONS"
-.IX Header "OPTIONS"
-.IP "\fB\-b\fR \fIfraction\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-b fraction"
-Backtrack on server numbering reset. Specify the proportion (\f(CW0.0\fR to \f(CW1.0\fR)
-of a group's articles to pull when the server's article number is less than
-our high for that group. When \fIfraction\fR is \f(CW1.0\fR, pull all the articles on
-a renumbered server. The default is to do nothing.
-.IP "\fB\-c\fR \fIconfig\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-c config"
-Normally, the config file is stored in \fI~/.pullnews\fR for the user running
-\&\fBpullnews\fR. If \fB\-c\fR is given, \fIconfig\fR will be used as the config file
-instead. This is useful if you're running \fBpullnews\fR as a system user on
-an automated basis out of cron rather than as an individual user.
-.Sp
-See \*(L"\s-1CONFIG\s0 \s-1FILE\s0\*(R" below for the format of this file.
-.IP "\fB\-C\fR \fIwidth\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-C width"
-Use \fIwidth\fR characters per line for the progress table. The default value
-is \f(CW50\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-d\fR \fIlevel\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-d level"
-Set the debugging level to the integer \fIlevel\fR; more debugging output
-will be logged as this increases. The default value is \f(CW0\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-f\fR \fIfraction\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-f fraction"
-This changes the proportion of articles to get from each group to
-\&\fIfraction\fR and should be in the range \f(CW0.0\fR to \f(CW1.0\fR (\f(CW1.0\fR being
-the default).
-.IP "\fB\-F\fR \fIfakehop\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-F fakehop"
-Prepend \fIfakehop\fR as a host to the Path: header of articles fed.
-.IP "\fB\-g\fR \fIgroups\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-g groups"
-Specify a collection of groups to get. \fIgroups\fR is a list of
-newsgroups separated by commas (only commas, no spaces). Each group must
-be defined in the config file, and only the remote hosts that carry those
-groups will be contacted. Note that this is a simple list of groups, not
-a wildmat expression, and wildcards are not supported.
-.IP "\fB\-G\fR \fInewsgroups\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-G newsgroups"
-Add the comma-separated list of groups \fInewsgroups\fR to each server in the
-configuration file (see also \fB\-g\fR and \fB\-w\fR).
-.IP "\fB\-h\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-h"
-Print a usage message and exit.
-.IP "\fB\-H\fR \fIheaders\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-H headers"
-Remove these named headers (colon\-separated list) from fed articles.
-.IP "\fB\-k\fR \fIcheckpt\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-k checkpt"
-Checkpoint (save) the config file every \fIcheckpt\fR articles
-(default is \f(CW0\fR, that is to say at the end of the session).
-.IP "\fB\-l\fR \fIlogfile\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-l logfile"
-Log progress/stats to \fIlogfile\fR (default is \f(CW\*(C`stdout\*(C'\fR).
-.IP "\fB\-m\fR \fIheader_pats\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-m header_pats"
-Feed an article based on header matching. The argument is a number of
-whitespace-separated tuples (each tuple being a colon-separated header and
-regular expression). For instance:
-.Sp
-.Vb 1
-\& Hdr1:regexp1 !Hdr2:regexp2
-.Ve
-.Sp
-specifies that the article will be passed only if the \f(CW\*(C`Hdr1:\*(C'\fR header
-matches \f(CW\*(C`regexp1\*(C'\fR and the \f(CW\*(C`Hdr2:\*(C'\fR header does not match \f(CW\*(C`regexp2\*(C'\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-M\fR \fInum\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-M num"
-Specify the maximum number of articles (per group) to process.
-The default is to process all new articles. See also \fB\-f\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-n\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-n"
-Do nothing but read articles \-\-\ does not feed articles downstream,
-writes no \fBrnews\fR file, does not update the config file.
-.IP "\fB\-N\fR \fItimeout\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-N timeout"
-Specify the timeout length, as \fItimeout\fR seconds,
-when establishing an \s-1NNTP\s0 connection.
-.IP "\fB\-p\fR \fIport\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-p port"
-Connect to the destination news server on a port other than the default of
-\&\f(CW119\fR. This option does not change the port used to connect to the source
-news servers.
-.IP "\fB\-P\fR \fIhop_limit\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-P hop_limit"
-Restrict feeding an article based on the number of hops it has already made.
-Count the hops in the Path: header (\fIhop_count\fR), feeding the article only
-when \fIhop_limit\fR is \f(CW\*(C`+num\*(C'\fR and \fIhop_count\fR is more than \fInum\fR;
-or \fIhop_limit\fR is \f(CW\*(C`\-num\*(C'\fR and \fIhop_count\fR is less than \fInum\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-q\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-q"
-Print out less status information while running.
-.IP "\fB\-Q\fR \fIlevel\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-Q level"
-Set the quietness level (\f(CW\*(C`\-Q 2\*(C'\fR is equivalent to \f(CW\*(C`\-q\*(C'\fR). The higher this
-value, the less gets logged. The default is \f(CW0\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-r\fR \fIfile\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-r file"
-Rather than feeding the downloaded articles to a destination server, instead
-create a batch file that can later be fed to a server using \fBrnews\fR. See
-\&\fIrnews\fR\|(1) for more information about the batch file format.
-.IP "\fB\-R\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-R"
-Be a reader (use \s-1MODE\s0 \s-1READER\s0 and \s-1POST\s0 commands) to the downstream
-server. The default is to use the \s-1IHAVE\s0 command.
-.IP "\fB\-s\fR \fIto-server\fR[:\fIport\fR]" 4
-.IX Item "-s to-server[:port]"
-Normally, \fBpullnews\fR will feed the articles it retrieves to the news
-server running on localhost. To connect to a different host, specify a
-server with the \fB\-s\fR flag. You can also specify the port with this same
-flag or use \fB\-p\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-S\fR \fImax-run\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-S max-run"
-Specify the maximum time \fImax-run\fR in seconds for \fBpullnews\fR to run.
-.IP "\fB\-t\fR \fIretries\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-t retries"
-The maximum number (\fIretries\fR) of attempts to connect to a server
-(see also \fB\-T\fR). The default is \f(CW0\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-T\fR \fIconnect-pause\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-T connect-pause"
-Pause \fIconnect-pause\fR seconds between connection retries (see also \fB\-t\fR).
-The default is \f(CW1\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-w\fR \fInum\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-w num"
-Set each group's high watermark (last received article number) to \fInum\fR.
-If \fInum\fR is negative, calculate \fICurrent\fR+\fInum\fR instead (i.e. get the last
-\&\fInum\fR articles). Therefore, a \fInum\fR of \f(CW0\fR will re-get all articles on the
-server; whereas a \fInum\fR of \f(CW\*(C`\-0\*(C'\fR will get no old articles, setting the
-watermark to \fICurrent\fR (the most recent article on the server).
-.IP "\fB\-x\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-x"
-If the \fB\-x\fR flag is used, an Xref: header is added to any article
-that lacks one. It can be useful for instance if articles are fed
-to a news server which has \fIxrefslave\fR set in \fIinn.conf\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-z\fR \fIarticle-pause\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-z article-pause"
-Sleep \fIarticle-pause\fR seconds between articles. The default is \f(CW0\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-Z\fR \fIgroup-pause\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-Z group-pause"
-Sleep \fIgroup-pause\fR seconds between groups. The default is \f(CW0\fR.
-.SH "CONFIG FILE"
-.IX Header "CONFIG FILE"
-The config file for \fBpullnews\fR is divided into blocks, one block for each
-remote server to connect to. A block begins with the host line, which
-must have no leading whitespace and contains just the hostname of the
-remote server, optionally followed by authentication details (username
-and password for that server).
-.PP
-Following the host line should be one or more newsgroup lines which start
-with whitespace followed by the name of a newsgroup to retrieve. Only one
-newsgroup should be listed on each line.
-.PP
-\&\fBpullnews\fR will update the config file to include the time the group was
-last checked and the highest numbered article successfully retrieved and
-transferred to the destination server. It uses this data to avoid doing
-duplicate work the next time it runs.
-.PP
-The full syntax is:
-.PP
-.Vb 3
-\& <host> [<username> <password>]
-\& <group> [<time> <high>]
-\& <group> [<time> <high>]
-.Ve
-.PP
-where the <host> line must not have leading whitespace and the <group>
-lines must.
-.PP
-A typical configuration file would be:
-.PP
-.Vb 7
-\& # Format group date high
-\& data.pa.vix.com
-\& rec.bicycles.racing 908086612 783
-\& rec.humor.funny 908086613 18
-\& comp.programming.threads
-\& nnrp.vix.com pull sekret
-\& comp.std.lisp
-.Ve
-.PP
-Note that an earlier run of \fBpullnews\fR has filled in details about the
-last article downloads from the two rec.* groups. The two comp.* groups
-were just added by the user and have not yet been checked.
-.PP
-The nnrp.vix.com server requires authentication, and \fBpullnews\fR will use
-the username \f(CW\*(C`pull\*(C'\fR and the password \f(CW\*(C`sekret\*(C'\fR.
-.SH "FILES"
-.IX Header "FILES"
-.IP "\fIpathbin\fR/pullnews" 4
-.IX Item "pathbin/pullnews"
-The Perl script itself used to pull news from upstream servers and feed
-it to another news server.
-.IP "\fI$HOME\fR/.pullnews" 4
-.IX Item "$HOME/.pullnews"
-The default config file. It is in the running user's home directory
-(normally called \fI~/.pullnews\fR).
-.SH "HISTORY"
-.IX Header "HISTORY"
-\&\fBpullnews\fR was written by James Brister for \s-1INN\s0. The documentation was
-rewritten in \s-1POD\s0 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
-.PP
-Geraint A. Edwards greatly improved \fBpullnews\fR, adding no more than 16\ new
-recognized flags, fixing some bugs and integrating the \fBbackupfeed\fR
-contrib script by Kai Henningsen, adding again 6\ other flags.
-.PP
-$Id: pullnews.pod 7853 2008\-05\-27 19:07:45Z iulius $
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
-\&\fIincoming.conf\fR\|(5), \fIrnews\fR\|(1).
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