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The xmit service performs several 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 | |
| -smtp mail.gate | Your local SMTP mail gateway |
| -name | Specifies the site name as found in newsfeeds.conf (optional) don't use upper case!!! |
| -fts | Specifies this feed should be used to build the fts search database |
| -dots | When sending to multiple groups, use group.name@xxx instead of group_name@xxx |
| -all | Wild card of group names, e.g. "comp.lang.*" |
| -user fred | Username to access local DNews site, (only supported after DNews version 5.3d) |
| -pass xxxx | Password to access local DNews site, (only supported after DNews version 5.3d) |
Examples:
Unix mail gateway
./xmit send.to.site.name -at "*2" "*" -mail JUGLIST@HERE.COM -name juggle"
NT news feed (superseded by DFeed, never use xmit to send news feeds now!)
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 *"
Sending all the comp groups to a mail gateway on unix
./xmit lists -at "*5" "*" -mail @here.com -smtp mail.here.com
-all "comp.*" -name complists &
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 -group group.name -from gatway_name [-approved moderator@here.com]
| -dir workarea | The directory to write messages for dposter to scan |
| -group rec.juggling | The name of the group to post the mail items to |
| -approved you@your.domain | If set, adds an approved header (useful for moderating a group) |
| -file xxx.dat | Input file, if set drobot reads from this file instead of stdin |
| -admin you@yourdomain | Admin address to attach to posts for complaints |
| -from you@your.domain | From address to use, sometimes needed by some mail servers |
| -subject "subject text" | Subject to add to messages that have no subject, otherwise they will be bounced by dnews. |
| -any | Use if you are setting up one robot to send to multiple groups, the group name is taken from the desitination user (the part before the @) |
| -remove_reply | If set reply-to headers are removed |
| -dotstuff | If set drobot will un-dotstuff incoming messages and stop reading when it sees a line containing a full stop on its own. Some mail servers send messages in this format. (This setting is only valid in DNews 5.1) |
This program should be run by NT-mail (or other mail server) 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 -from juggle-list
On unix place this in your .forward file (in your home directory)
|"/usr/local/dnews/drobot -dir /var/spool/gateway -groups rec.juggling -from 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