Tellnews commands

Tellnews commands allow you detailed control of the server.

groupwild = A group name or wild card, e.g. rec.humor, or rec.humor.*

Command	Description
crash_now	Emulate competitors products
create_groups	Create test news groups (debugging only never do this on a real server)
checkbuckets	Check each bucket is the size expected etc
dropall	Drop all news items (for testing only)
dump	Create dump.log of current memory usage
expire	start the nightly expire thread
expire_status	Show status info regarding the current/last expire
exit | shutdown	shutdown server
fts_rebuild	Rebuild FTS subject index database, this can take a long tiime!
getold groupwild	reset upto counters on upstream servers
getgroups	get the list of groups from the upstream server now
killitem group nnn	Delete a news item
listidx groupname	list the index entries for the group
newgroup x.y.z	Create a news group
rebuild_index	rebuild indexes based on bucket index files
rebuild_bucket nn	rebuild the index for the specified bucket, follow with a rebuild_index
rebuild_buckets	Rebuild each buckets index, it then does an rebuild_index -very slow
rebuild_buckets_live	Rebuild each buckets index, do a rebuild_index when this has finished
rebuild_hist	Rebuild history index from buckets (may take a few hours)
rmgroup "x.y.*"	Delete a news group or several
setread groupwild	set some groups as 'read' so they are fetched.
setunread groupwild	set some groups as 'unread' so they are not pulled.
showread groupwild	list groups which are read by users
showbucket	Show information about a single bucket
showbucket	List index contents of an actual bucket index
showbody x.y nnn	Show the body of a message
showarticle x.y nnn	Show a message header and body
showgroup	List the items in a news group
showbuckets	List information about each bucket file
showread groupwild	Show last read time of groups
showuse groupname	Show usage figures for a single news group
showupto groupname	Show the upto counter on upstream feed
showhead group item	Show the header of a news item in a group
showidx group n	show a single index entry for a group number
showblocks group	show the blocks pointing to index for a group
showbody group item	show the body of a message
showarticle group item	show the complete article
sortall	Sort all buckets that should be sorted (slow, not recommended)
update	start an update of any 'read' group