Setting Description | Value |
access_twice - Lookup
users by 'number' before
attempting a DNS lookup. | |
active_static - Dont get
groups that are added from
your sucking feed. | |
allow_world - Stop
warning if any ip address
can access the server. | |
auth_case - Case sensitive
for usernames and
passwords. | |
autoexpire - Trigger an
expire when disk usage hits
n percentage | |
bind_ in - The IP number of
adapter to listen for
connections on (for multiple
IP's) | |
bind_out - The IP number
of adapter to use for output
connections (for multiple
IP's) | |
body_chunk - The size of
chunks read from disk
when user reads article | |
cachedall - Pretend all groups are cached, use this if you are taking
a full IHAVE feed in. This command stops the 'Downloading' messages appearing.
| |
cachedonly - Only accepts items into groups which are cached, this
is used for the hybrid feed where items are sent by a
feed but only taken if users are reading that particular
group. | |
cache_ongroup - Set group
to cached when nntp group
commands are recieved | |
cache_onxover - Set group
to cached when nntp xover
commands are recieved | |
cancel_anyone - Allows
anyone to cancel a message | |
cancel_users - Only allow
cancel messages from this
email address | |
chan_nobuff - Use to help the Mosaic news reader to work. (it has a
bug) | |
control_me - Apply the
'me' newsfeeds.conf rules
to control messages | |
config - Directory for configuration files (*.conf) all except
dnews.conf | |
confirm - Send email confirmation to postings from these
addresses. (set this to match your local email
addresses) | |
convert_add - Makes
Import/Convert simply add
rather than replicatethe item
numbers | |
expire_any - deletes all
linked cross postings if a
cross post link is deleted. | |
expire_at - Run an expire job at 5 past eleven and 5 past 3 in the
morning. Unless expire_minutes is set to true the
minutes value will be ignored. | |
expire_chunk - Sets how many lines from the history file to expire in
one go. Increasing this makes expire faster but uses
more memory. Generally the default will be fine. | |
expire_delay - The maximum delay before dnews will expire some
more items even if it is flat out answering user requests.
(not generally needed) | |
expire_fast - Increases
priority of expire job. | |
expire_min - This sets the maximum wasted space in the bucket
files, the value is a percentage, the default is 10% or
5% if disk usage is above 90%. | |
expire_minutes - Used to make dnews use the minutes setting in the
expire_at rule. | |
expire_small - When dnews is using more than 89% of the disk space
there is a danger of it deleting to many items in one go, this setting is used to limit how many it deletes before
checking to see if the disk is still almost full. | |
feed_reader - Sends the 'mode reader' command when connecting to
a feeding site, this is the default. You will probably
never have to change this setting.
| |
fts_dir - Sets the directory where the fts index files are being
stored. (see the section on FTS for more details)
| |
fts_expire - Automatically set if fts_dir is true, this tells dnews to
write a list of all expired articles so that the fts system
can remove them from the fts database.
| |
groups_at - Sets when dnews should check for newly created news
groups on the site that it is sucking news from. (not needed with an IHAVE feed where the control news
items perform this function). | |
head_cache - How many
item headers to keep in
memory. | |
head_limit - Limits the size of headers to keep in the cache, the
default is about 2000 | |
hide_queue -Stops list of
groups shown in
'Downloading' messeage | |
item_max - Sets the
maximum size for any
article that DNEWS can
deal with. | |
life - Number of days to keep fetching a news group from
the upstream server after someone reads an item in it.
| |
list_min - How many groups need to be cached before the
update method switches to the technique that works
best for large numbers of groups.
| |
live_stream - stops live feeds from using the streaming extensions to
send articles, (this configures automatically normally)
| |
log_ihave - Enables logging of ihave/takethis commands
| |
log_inline - Enables logging of all the 'item ok' messages
inside the dnews.log file | |
log_nntp - Stops logging of
all the nntp commands sent
to dnews | |
loglvl - One of: error,warn,info,debug,flush.
There are four levels of error reporting, "error" includes serious errors, "warn" includes possible problems,
"info" includes general information messages and "debug" which is used for tracing bugs. "flush" is the
same as debug but the log file is flushed with every single line written, this is useful if the system is crashing
but not providing a stack dump.
| |
loguse - write a log of
every item/body read by
users (u_yymmdd.log_n) | |
mail_from - Sets the from
address used when dnews
sends a report or email
confirmation to a user. | |
manager - Email address of the news manager
| |
max_speed - Limits the speed, in characters per second, that any
channel can send news into dnews.
| |
max_out - Maximum
outgoing speed, per
channel. char/sec. | |
me_continue - Feed
messages to uucp feeds
even if me feed blocks item. | |
myname - Your full Internet name, if left out this may be picked
up from the system. It's best to put it in by hand tomake sure it's right. See path_stamp below.
| |
newnews_users - List of IP names DNEWS accepts the
newnews command. | |
nntp_logoff - Specifies the
message to give to users
who are not granted
connect access via
access.conf. | |
nntp_xposting - Lets you
add a header that will
identify your spammers. | |
no_newnews - Disables the
newnews command. | |
nocontrol - Prevents automatic creation of the 'control' news
group. | |
nodns - Stops DNEWS from doing reverse DNS lookups
every time a user connects, you will have to put ip numbers into access.conf if you use this feature, but if
your DNS is faulty or slow then this can improve connection times.
| |
nospacecheck - Stops
dnews checking for free
disk space. | |
nostream - Tells dnews to pretend it cannot take a streaming
incoming feed. | |
open_block - Makes nntp open calls block the news server.
| |
open_retry - How long to wait after failing to open an nntp
connection before retrying .
| |
org - Sets the name added
to local posts which don't
have 'organization'. | |
org_replace - Always
changes 'organization' to be
changed. | |
out_size - Sets the size of packets to be sent in one write
operation to a socket.
| |
path_stamp - The name used to stamp the path of messages that go
through your system, this should be a fully qualified text name in lower case, it need not have a genuine DNS
entry.
Use this if your MYNAME parameter is a single word or a number. e,.g.myname 22.33.23.4 path_stamp
news.netwinsite.com. Ver 4
| |
pgp - Path/Command for
PGP on your system (PGP
2.6) | |
pgppath - PGPPATH
directory environment
variable to find key ring etc | |
port - The socket port that
DNEWS uses for NEWS
connections | |
post_log - Logs every local
post to a post.log. | |
post_rec - Record pertinent
information about all local
posts in post.log | |
post_route - Enables
routing of incoming ihave
messages to outgoing
posting feeds. | |
post_nosuck - This option
disables the 'suck' that
occurs when a group is
posted to. | |
postonly - Stop items from
being posted locally until
the 'echo' back from the
feeder site. | |
ras_entry - Setting this gets
DNEWS to automatically
dial up, fetch news and
hang up by itself. | |
ras_number - If you are have a dial up line to the Intenet you can on
Windows have DNEWS automatically dial up, update news and then hang up. To do this you set the
ras_number, ras_username and ras_password commands to the dial up phone number, your
username and password respectively and DNEWS will automatically dial up in accord with your update rules.
Alternatively simply set the ras_entry as described above and DNEWS will look up the informantion it needs.
| |
ras_password - Refer ras_number
| |
ras_username - Refer ras_number
| |
reject_addhist - If a
message is rejected, add it
to history file so it won't be
accepted from a second
feed site. | |
replicate - Makes dnews
use the same item numbers
for each item as are used
on the server it's sucking
from. | |
send_at - Send messages
upstream when the time
matches. | |
send_later - Stops
DNEWS from attempting
to send a post immediately.
see requeue | |
slave_feed - IP number of
any host sending an ihave
feed. No IP names. | |
slave_n - Number of dnews processes to run, 2-5 is
recommended. | |
slave_ports - TCPIP ports
to use for the slaves. | |
slave_restart - Restarts the
slave processes at that time
each day. | |
spam_debug - Tell user
when messages are
rejected (they are normally
accepted and then thrown
away so the spammer
doesn't know they have
been foiled) | |
spam_dup_cross - Number
of duplicate bodies counting
cross posts to allow. | |
spam_dup_hits- Number of
duplicate bodies (not cross
posted) to allow. | |
spam_dup_total - Number
of items to 'remember' in
our history of 'duplicate'
bodies. Uses about 30
bytes per entry. | |
spam_from_cross -
Number of messages
counting cross posts from
any single user per hour. | |
spam_from_hits - Number
of messages from any single
user per hour | |
spam_from_total - Number
of users to keep tabs on in
our history of duplicate
users, uses about 100 bytes
per user. | |
spam_host - Use
'nntp-posting-host' instead
of 'from' for the above 3
rules. | |
spam_keepn - Number of
rejected items to store in
spam_n.tmp files | |
spam_stop - Reject
messages which appear to
be spam or match words or
phrases in filter.dat | |
spam_test - Don't actually
reject messages, just log
what you would have done,
spam_stop must be set to
true as well | |
spool_free - Choose which
spool to use based on
actual space. | |
suck_batchn - Maximum
number of items to get from
one group before going
onto the next. | |
suck_batchsize - Maximum
bytes to get from one group
before going onto the next
group. | |
suck_disable -Disables
sucking groups, but not
getgroups, matchgroups.
see xreplic | |
suck_maxgroups -
Uncaches all groups when
this number is reached. | |
suck_maxold - Limits the maximum number of old items that dnews should
suck from a group. | |
suck_percent - Suck only
this much of availble new
items, e.g. 80% use this to
'fill in gaps' | |
suck_requeue - Tells dnews to reque a group that is not finished.
| |
suck_stream - Makes
dnews suck much faster,
don't set this unless you
need to as it hurts the
server you are sucking from | |
suck_uucp - Directory and
file names of incoming uucp
files. | |
tcp_nodelay - Sets the
socket to send data
immediately. | |
timeout - Define how long to wait after a channel becomes idle
before disconnecting it, the default is 120 minutes.
| |
timing - Enable timing
statistics shown with
'tellnews stats' command | |
too_old - Reject items
more than n days old. | |
update_at - Check for new items every time the minutes end in a 5
or a zero and at any hour, e.g. every 5 minutes..
| |
uucp_crlf - Writes uucp files as MSDOS text files instead of
proper unix format. | |
uucp_simple - Ignore rnews
count and just gues where
bag files start and end | |
xover_cache - How many
xover records to cache. | |
xover_moved - If your
xover directory is not on
the spool disk, check this
true. | |