INEWS(1) — User’s Manual — Commands

NAME

inews − submit news articles

SYNOPSIS

inews −t title [ −n newsgroups ] [ −e expiration date ] [ −f sender ]

inews −p [ filename ]

inews −C newsgroup

DESCRIPTION

Inews submits news articles to the USENET news network. The first form is for submitting user articles. The body will be read from the standard input. A title must be specified as there is no default. Each article belongs to a list of newsgroups. If you wish to submit an article in multiple newsgroups, the newsgroups must be separated by commas and/or spaces.

The second form is used for receiving articles from other machines. If filename is given, the article will be read from the specified file; Otherwise the article will be read from the standard input. An expiration date need not be present and a receival date, if present, will be ignored.

After local installation, inews will transmit the article to all systems that subscribe to the newsgroups that the article belongs to.

The third form is for creating new newsgroups. On some systems, this may be limited to specific users such as the super-user or news administrator. (This happens on ours.)

If the file /usr/lib/news/recording is present, it is taken as a list of "recordings" to be shown to users posting news. (This is by analogy to the recording you hear when you dial information in some parts of the country, asking you if you really wanted to do this.) The file contains lines of the form:
newsgroups <tab> filename
for example:
net.all/usr/lib/news/net.recording fa.all/usr/lib/news/fa.recording
Any user posting an article to a newsgroup matching the pattern on the left will be shown the contents of the file on the right. The user is then told to hit DEL to abort or RETURN to proceed. The intent of this feature is to help companies keep proprietary information from accidently leaking out.

OPTIONS

−n newsgroups
List of newsgroups to which the article is submitted. In the absence of this option the article is submitted to a default newsgroup such as general.

−e expiration date

−f sender
Identifies the sender of the article.

−p

−C newsgroup

FILES

/usr/spool/news/.sys.nnn temporary articles

/usr/spool/news/newsgroups/article_no.
Articles

/usr/spool/news/.canned Canceled articles

/usr/lib/news/ngfile List of legal newsgroups

/usr/lib/news/seq Sequence number of last article

/usr/lib/news/history List of all articles ever seen

/usr/lib/news/sys System subscription list

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