CROSSPOST(8)

NAME
       crosspost - create the links for cross posted articles

SYNOPSIS
       crosspost [ -D dir ] [ -s ] [ file...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       Crosspost  reads  group and article number data from files
       or standard input if none are specified.  (A  single  dash
       in  the  file list means to read standard input.)  It uses
       this information to create the hard,  or  symbolic,  links
       for  cross  posted  articles.  Crosspost is designed to be
       used by InterNetNews to create the links as  the  articles
       come  in.   Normally  innd creates the links but by having
       crosspost create the links innd spends less  time  waiting
       for  disk  IO.  In this mode one would start innd(8) using
       the ``-L'' flag.

       Crosspost expects input in the form:
              group.name/123 group2.name/456 group3.name/789

       with one line per article.  Any  dots  in  the  input  are
       translated  into  "/"  to  translate the news group into a
       pathname.  The first field is assumed to be the name of an
       existing  copy  of the article.  Crosspost will attempt to
       link all the subsequent entries to the  first  using  hard
       links if possible or symbolic links if that fails.

       By  default, crosspost processes its input as an INN chan-
       nel feed written as a ``WR''  entry  in  the  newsfeeds(5)
       file, for example:
              crosspost:*:Tc,Ap,WR:/usr/lib/news/bin/crosspost

       To  process  the  history file and re-create all the links
       for all articles use:
              awk <history -F'    ' '(NF > 2){print $3}' | cross-
              post

       (where the -F is followed by a tab character.)

       The  ``-D''  flag can be used to specify where the article
       spool   is   stored.     The    default    directory    is
       /var/spool/news.

       By  default  crosspost  will  fsync(2)  each article after
       updating the links.  The ``-s'' flag can be used  to  pre-
       vent this.

HISTORY
       Written by Jerry Aguirre lt;jerry@ATC.Olivetti.Com.

SEE ALSO
       newsfeeds(5) innd(8).