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Send commands to Master Process Slave 1 Slave 2 Slave 3 Slave 4 Slave 5 Slave 6
Set a selection of groups specified by a wild card to 'cached' this means dnews will attemp to suck these groups from your upstream site. It will also set the number of days to cache the groups on the server.
Groups: Days
Scan buckets and find any missing ones
Correct group ranges "from" "to" and "number" of items based on the information in the master index, this will take up to 2 minutes.
Process a set text file as if it had been recieved as a checkgroups control message, the file should have the normal headers and must be placed in the CONFIG directory.
File Name:
Copy a newsgroup, this is only intended for local news groups. The new newsgroup must already exist.
Old Group name: New Group name:
Clears some of the internal caches used for reading item files.
Used with loglvl debug or flush, to control which debugging messages are sent to the log file. The list of options must not contain spaces.
Debug information to send to log file:
Used by the dnews admin to disconnect a single channel, select the number 'n' by doing a tellnews status command
Channel to disonnect:
Show approximate disk use of specified groups
NewsGroup or Wild card
Clear cache of ip names/numbers
Show ip names/numbers in cache
Closedown the daemon cleanly
Run the expire process
Check the active.names file and repair
Reset the active.times file to n days ago
Number of days:
Get any new groups from that suck feed
Number of suck feed to check for new groups
Get the active.names from our feeder
Get older news from the feeder
NewsGroup or Wild card number of days
Age all groups one day
Merge active.add into active.dat
Remove duplicate groups in the active file
Enter your registration key
Key to enter:
Actually delete group from active.dat if empty
Group to remove:
killitem grpname num Delete a specific item and cross posts
Group name: Item number:
killitem "<message_id>" Delete by message id, enter the message id in the group field above and leave the number empty
Delete a specific item
Display last 50 lines of log file
Create file chan_n.log for channel [n]
log channel number:
Set debug level on the fly
Set loglvl to: debug error flush info warn
Delete groups that don't match ME feed
Add and remove groups to match the place we suck from
name y|m creator desc Add a new group
Name: normal/moderated (y|m)
Creator: Description:
Remove groups marked as deleted
Scan db for items not in the history file
Delete db index and rebuild from item files, takes hours
Send articles again, to create fts index
Reject a specific item from Ihave feed
Reload news.conf ...
Get a new fts index from disk
Removes items not in history (medium speed)
EMail status to manager
Requeue builtin feeds
(ONLY FOR NEW SYSTEMS) Clears ALL item numbers
Mark group as deleted
Rotate the .log files
Set Megabytes used
Process a text file as if it had been recieved as a checkgroups control message, the file should have the normal headers and must be placed in the CONFIG directory.
Show mem use in detail
Show the contents of the update queue
Show users who have been connected and stats
Show how fast articles are arriving
Reset the counters used above
THROWS AWAY ARTICLES - TESTING ONLY
Show statistics on groups since startup
Show statistics on incoming news since last expire
Show statistics on outgoing feeds
Show what server is doing
Test access.conf entries
Check number of file handles available
Check how much mem dnews can allocate
Lock up Dnews for n seconds
Check how many sockets dnews can open
trimgroups n Delete groups not on upstream site
Number to trim:
Set a group to uncached
Mark deleted groups as normal again
Start a suck update
Clear current update queue
updateone wild [n] Get matching cached groups from suck n
NewsGroup or Wild card Suck #
Send an undocumented tellnews command