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IN.HOSTS(5)              DragonFly File Formats Manual             IN.HOSTS(5)


NAME

       in.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 ALSO

       newsx(8)

                                                                   IN.HOSTS(5)

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