CROSSPOST(8)CROSSPOST(8)NAMEcrosspost - create the links for cross posted articles
SYNOPSIScrosspost [ -D dir ] [ -s ] [ file... ]
DESCRIPTION
Crosspost reads group and article number data from files
or standard input if none are specified. (A single dash
in the file list means to read standard input.) It uses
this information to create the hard, or symbolic, links
for cross posted articles. Crosspost is designed to be
used by InterNetNews to create the links as the articles
come in. Normally innd creates the links but by having
crosspost create the links innd spends less time waiting
for disk IO. In this mode one would start innd(8) using
the ``-L'' flag. If storageapi is turned on at inn.conf,
crosspost is not needed since it is for traditional spool.
Crosspost expects input in the form:
group.name/123 group2.name/456 group3.name/789
with one line per article. Any dots in the input are
translated into ``/'' to translate the news group into a
pathname. The first field is assumed to be the name of an
existing copy of the article. Crosspost will attempt to
link all the subsequent entries to the first using hard
links if possible or symbolic links if that fails.
By default, crosspost processes its input as an INN chan-
nel feed written as a ``WR'' entry in the newsfeeds(5)
file, for example:
crosspost!:*:Tc,WR:<PREFIX specified with --prefix
at configure>/bin/crosspost
To process the history file and re-create all the links
for all articles use:
awk <history -F' ' '(NF > 2){print $3}' | cross-
post
(where the ``-F'' is followed by a tab character.)
The ``-D'' flag can be used to specify where the article
spool is stored. The default directory is
<patharticles in inn.conf>.
By default crosspost will fsync(2) each article after
updating the links. The ``-s'' flag can be used to pre-
vent this.
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CROSSPOST(8)CROSSPOST(8)HISTORY
Written by Jerry Aguirre <jerry@ATC.Olivetti.Com>.
SEE ALSOinn.conf(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5).
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