rjk-nntp-tools

This package contains tools do with Usenet news. It depends on cairo, libpthread, libcurl, libexpat and libgcrypt. It runs on Linux but should not be too hard to get going on other UNIX platforms.

Installation

./configure
make
make install

(as ever see INSTALL for more info.)

`lj2news`

lj2news reads the RSS feed provided by Livejournal (or Dreamwidth), formats it to plain text, and posts it to a newsgroup. See man lj2news for documentation.

I suggest that you start by posting to a test newsgroup and setting the -x option to something (any nonempty string will do). Adjust the command line until you are happy. For each test (that posts anything) you will need a fresh -x value.

When you are happy remove the -x option and set the -n option to point to the newsgroup you really want to post to.

You can run the command manually or put it in a cronjob to run e.g. once a day.

Be careful with cronjobs, sometimes their environment differs from the interactive environment. For instance you may need to explicitly set NNTPAUTH and NNTPSERVER (though you can use the -s option instead of the latter.)

For instance, I have the following in a script, which I execute from a cron job:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
export NNTPAUTH="md5cookie1way richard"
lj2news \
  -a "http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/;rjk+ljua@greenend.org.uk" \
  -t ewx \
  -f "Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>" \
  -n chiark.journals \
  -s chiark-tunnel.greenend.org.uk \
  -S $HOME/.lj2news-sig.txt \
  http://www.livejournal.com/users/ewx/rss

Alternatively, use setup-lj2news which will ask you about your journal and figure out the required command.

`git2news` and `bzr2news`

git2news and bzr2news post Git and Bazaar changelog entries to a newsgroup. See man git2news or man bzr2news for documentation.

`spoolstats`

spoolstats reads a news spool (directly) and generates an HTML report giving numbers articles per day, posters, etc. See man spoolstats for documentation. You can find example output at www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/spoolstats.

find-unhistorical

find-unhistorical reads an INN news spool and reports any articles that aren't in the history file. Since INN doesn't know about these articles they are "lost" and will never be deleted in the normal process of expiry.

This program is only built if the INN libraries can be located.

Reporting Bugs

Please report bugs via github.

Copyright

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA