updatenews(8)

NAME
updatenews - post articles from outgoing spool directory and prefetch newsgroups

SYNOPSIS
updatenews [ config-file ]

DESCRIPTION

Updatenews submits all those articles that have been stored within NewsCache's .outgoing-queue. Afterwards it retrieves all the articles from the newsgroups listed in the PrefetchFile (This can be configured in newscache.conf).

  OPTIONS

--active
    Prefetch the active data base.

--group
    Prefetch whole newsgroups.

--over
    Only prefetch the overview database.

--lock-group
    Always lock the newsgroup while prefetching it. This improves the performance of updatenews slightly, but nobody else can read this newsgroup while prefetching.

--workers #
    Use # workers for prefetching. Each worker is assigned its own newsgroup to prefetch.

--help
    Print a small help message.

  NOTES

Spool directory must not be located on an NFS mounted volume. NewsCache uses file-locking, which is not supported over NFS.

FILES
newscache.conf NewsCache configuration file

SEE ALSO
NewsCache(8), newscache.conf(5)

BUGS
None known so far.

AUTHOR
Thomas Gschwind <tom@infosys.tuwien.ac.at>