IN.HOSTS(5)IN.HOSTS(5)NAMEin.hosts - newsx incoming host state
DESCRIPTION
The in.hosts directory contains the necessary state information for the
incoming news streams fetched by newsx(8).
For each incoming news source, there must be a
/usr/local/news/spool/inhosts/spoolname file that describes what the
latest article is that has been fetched from that particular host.
If you want to get all news articles in all the groups defined at your
local server, do nothing and let the file be constructed automatically.
Other choices, such as using multiple cron(8) entries and newsx(8) end
tags to control when certain newsgroups are fetched, or using .newsrc
article numbers to avoid fetching articles you've already seen, require
setting up the in.hosts file for the server by hand.
The format of this file is simple:
Blank lines and lines starting with a '#' are treated as comments.
Lines starting with a ':' indicate a tag for use with the newsx -e (end
tag) option.
Otherwise, each line consists of a newsgroup name and the first unread
article number, separated by whitespace. No article number is the
same as zero, meaning that all available articles on the server will be
read.
It is important to realize that there is one unique file belonging to
each remote newsserver, and that they should not be mixed.
If switching from reading news via an NNTP newsreader to fetching with
newsx, it is possible to use an existing .newsrc file directly as the
initial /usr/local/news/spool/inhosts/spoolname file.
FILES
/usr/local/news/spool/inhosts/spoolname
Incoming host state file. There should be one of these per
external news server.
/usr/local/news/spool/inhosts/spoolname.tmp
Incoming spool, temporary (while news is being pulled).
/usr/local/news/spool/inhosts/spoolname.old
Previous generation of the external host state file.
/usr/local/news/spool/articles/in.hosts/spoolname.conf
Standard profile for specific newsspool. See newsx.conf(5) for file
format.
AUTHOR
Egil Kvaleberg <egil@kvaleberg.no>
SEE ALSOnewsx(8)IN.HOSTS(5)
