Current INN Documentation
This documentation is from the current Subversion head of INN development,
not for the latest INN release. It is therefore intended primarily for
INN developers and users who are tracking CURRENT snapshots, and to test
the HTML conversion of the documentation. Be warned that it may be
incorrect for STABLE snapshots or a released version and be careful about
relying on it.
Available from this page is all the documentation that has been converted
to POD, but not yet all of INN's documentation. Some is still only
available in nroff format. Help in translating documentation into POD is
gratefully accepted.
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
Data files:
Outgoing feeds:
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:
Support utilities:
- actsync — Synchronize the active file with an external source
(sample actsync.cfg,
actsync.ign)
- 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
(sample innwatch.ctl)
- perl-nocem — NoCeM-on-spool implementation
(sample nocem.ctl)
- 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 modified and
spun 2018-01-23