updatenews(8)

NAME
updatenews - post articles from outgoing spool directory and prefetch newsgroups

SYNOPSIS
updatenews [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -a ] [ -g ] [ -o ] [ -l ] [ -w # ]

DESCRIPTION
Updatenews submits all those articles that have been stored within NewsCache's outgoing-queue. If necessary the ActiveDB will be updated (see the -a option to force the update). Afterwards retrieves all the articles from the newsgroups listed in the PrefetchFile (This can be configured in newscache.conf).

OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h, --help
    Show summary of options.

-v, --version
    Show version of program.

-a, --active
    Force the prefetch the active data base. Updatenews first invalidate the ActiveDB to force the update.

-g, --group
    Prefetch whole newsgroups.

-o, --over
    Only prefetch the overview database.

-l, --lock-group
    Always lock the newsgroup while prefetching it. This improves the performance of update- news slightly, but nobody else can read this newsgroup while prefetching.

-w, --workers #
    Use # workers for prefetching. Each worker is assigned its own newsgroup to prefetch.

FILES
@SYSCONFDIR@/newscache.conf
@SBINDIR@/newscache
@SBINDIR@/newscacheclean
@SBINDIR@/newscacheclean
@SBINDIR@/updatenews

SEE ALSO
newscache.conf(5), newscacheclean(8), updatenews(8).

AUTHORS
1997-2000 Thomas Gschwind <tom@infosys.tuwien.ac.at>
2001-2004 Herbert Straub <h.straub@aon.at>

REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <newscache@linuxhacker.org>.

COPYRIGHT
NewsCache is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.