INN 2.5 Documentation
This documentation is from the old INN 2.5 branch and should be the
most accurate information for all releases of INN 2.5, but it is only
guaranteed to reflect the INN 2.5.5 release. This branch is no longer
under active development.
Available from this page is all the documentation that was converted to
POD at the time of INN 2.5.5. Much was only available in nroff format.
More extensive documentation can be obtained by downloading the INN 2.5
distribution.
Basic documentation:
Documentation for developers:
Filtering and authentication hook documentation:
Configuration files:
Primary daemons and utilities to start them:
- ctlinnd — Control the main INN daemon
- innd — Core daemon for accepting and storing articles
- nnrpd — NNTP reader server
- rc.news — Start or stop INN daemons
- tinyleaf — Very simple IHAVE-only NNTP server
- Sample files:
Data files:
Outgoing feeds:
- batcher — Prepare UUCP batches
- buffchan — Buffered backend for generating batch files
- innfeed, imapfeed — Multi-host, multi-connection, streaming NNTP feeder
- innxmit — Send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP server
- nntpsend — Send Usenet articles to remote sites
- send-uucp — Send Usenet articles via UUCP
Article posting utilities:
- inews — Post an article to the local news server
- mailpost — Feed an e-mail message into a newsgroup
- pullnews — Pull news from news servers and feed it to another
- rnews — Inject individual articles and UUCP batches
Overview method documentation:
User utilities:
- convdate — Convert time and date strings and numbers
- fastrm — Quickly remove a list of files
- getlist — Get a list from an NNTP server
- grephistory — Query the INN history database
- innconfval — Get configuration parameters from inn.conf
- inndf — Report free disk, inodes, and overview space
- innupgrade — Upgrade INN configuration files
- mod-active — Batch processing of newsgroup changes
- simpleftp — Rudimentary FTP client
- sm — Command-line interface to the INN storage manager
Expiration and maintenance utilities:
- expire — Article and history expiration program
- expireover — Perform all overview-driven expiration
- expirerm — Remove articles that have been expired
- makedbz — Rebuild dbz files
- makehistory — Rebuild the history and overview databases
- news.daily — Perform daily Usenet maintenance tasks
- prunehistory — Remove tokens from Usenet history file
- scanlogs — Summarize and rotate INN log files
- tally.control — Keep track of newsgroup creations and deletions
Special article processing:
- archive — Save articles to a local archive
- controlchan — Channel-fed control message handler
- docheckgroups — Process checkgroups and output a list of changes
- news2mail — Channel script to gateway news into e-mails
- ninpaths — Report Usenet Path: statistics
- overchan — Batch update the overview database
Support utilities:
- actsync — Synchronize the active file with an external source
- cvtbatch — Convert Usenet batch files to INN format
- innbind — Helper program to bind sockets to privileged ports
- inncheck — Check INN configuration and database files
- innmail — Simple mail sending program
- innwatch — Monitor the state of INN and the system
- perl-nocem — NoCeM-on-spool implementation
- pgpverify — Cryptographically verify Usenet control messages
- procbatch — Process an INN funnel file or innfeed-dropped file
- sendinpaths — Send Usenet Path: statistics via e-mail
- shlock — Create lock files for use in shell scripts
Authentication programs:
- auth_krb5 — nnrpd Kerberos v5 authenticator
- ckpasswd — nnrpd password authenticator
- domain — nnrpd domain resolver
- ident — nnrpd ident resolver
- radius — nnrpd RADIUS password authenticator
CNFS storage support utilities:
OVDB overview support utilities:
Tradindexed overview support utilities:
- tdx-util — Tradindexed overview manipulation utility
Tradspool storage support utilities:
- scanspool — Perform a sanity check over all articles in news spool
Support library documentation:
Perl support:
Contributed software:
- thdexpire — Dynamic expire daemon for timehash and timecaf storage
- tunefeed — Build a newsgroups pattern for a remote feed
Last spun
2022-02-06 from thread modified 2021-03-29