SNNTP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: local
Index Return to Main Contents
 

NAME

snntp, snntpsend - transmit netnews via NNTP simply  

SYNOPSIS

snntp [ -v ] site
snntpsend [ site ... ]  

DESCRIPTION

Snntp sends articles named on standard input (in C News `n' format) to internet site via the NNTP protocol. Any input lines corresponding to articles that cannot be sent are copied to standard output. The v option causes snntp to chatter on standard error.

Snntpsend is more commonly invoked; it expects to find batch files for sites in /usr/spool/nntp and sends news to each named site (*.* if none).  

FILES

/usr/spool/out.nntp    nntp batch files
 

SEE ALSO

newssys(5), relaynews(8), snntpd(8)
Internet RFC 977 - NNTP  

DIAGNOSTICS

Snntp exits with status 0 in the normal case, with batch entries for any unsent messages on standard output; status 1 in the event that no articles were sent, in which case standard output can be ignored; any other status indicates a disastrous error.  

HISTORY

Written by Geoff Collyer as a companion to snntpd(8).  

BUGS

NNTP is not the last word in news transmission protocols.

The silly CRLF convention used by NNTP is a nuisance.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO
DIAGNOSTICS
HISTORY
BUGS

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 16:42:32 GMT, November 10, 2022