The xmit service performs serveral functions, it can send a news feed to another site, it can send news messages to a mail address (or email list) and it can build the full text searching database.
xmit site.name [-at minutes hours] [-mail list@address -name list-name]
site.name | The site exactly as specified in newsfeeds.conf that this process should send items to |
-at mins hours | Specifies how often to wake up and attempt to send more articles |
Specifies the email address to post articles (this is the gateway from news to email | |
-name | Specifies the list name to insert in the headers of emailed messages. |
-fts | Specifies this feed should be used to build the fts search database |
Examples:
Unix mail gateway ./xmit send.to.site.name -at "*2" "*" -mail JUGLIST@HERE.COM -name juggling"
NT news feed (superseeded by live links) addsvc -add dxmit1 xmit.exe "dxmit1 site.name.edu -at *5 *"
NT Full Text Searching addsvc -add dfts xmit.exe "dfts ftsfeed -fts -at *5 *"
The dposter service is intended to only be used in conjunction with the drobot email robot. drobot writes email messages into a directory, and dposter scans the directory periodically and then posts the email messages into the news server.
dposter -dir workarea -to news.server.name
-dir workarea | The directory to scan for messages written by drobot |
-to news.server | The name of the news server to post these messages into |
Example:
addsvc -add dposter dposter.exe "dposter -dir c:\ntmail\news -to news.here.com"
drobot -dir workarea -groups group.name
This program should be run by NT-mail as a robot, it will take the incoming message, reformat some of the headers, and write them to a directory ready for dposter to read.
Example:
drobot -dir c:\ntmail\news -groups rec.juggling
This utility is used for adding or removing services from the NT services list.
addsvc [-add servic_name program.exe "Name in service list"]
addsvc [-del servic_name]
-add | Add a service to the NT services list |
-del | Remove a service |
service_name | A unique name for the service, you can use this to delete the service later on |
program.exe | The executable program to install, typically it must be in the system32 directory |
"parameters" | This string is shown in the service list, it is also used to emulate the parameters that would be used if the program was run from the command line. |
Example:
addsvc -add dfts xmit.exe "dfts ftsfeed -fts -at *5 *"
dtail -lines filename
This command can be used to show the last 'n' lines of a file, it is a simplified version of the unix tail command. This is very useful for checking the end of the dnews.log file.
Example:
dtail -30 dnews.log