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### Tellnews commands

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Set a selection of groups specified by a wild card to 'cached' this means dnews will attemp to suck these groups from your upstream site. It will also set the number of days to cache the groups on the server.

Groups: Days

Scan buckets and find any missing ones

Correct group ranges "from" "to" and "number" of items based on the information in the master index, this will take up to 2 minutes.

Process a set text file as if it had been recieved as a checkgroups control message, the file should have the normal headers and must be placed in the CONFIG directory.

File Name:

Copy a newsgroup, this is only intended for local news groups. The new newsgroup must already exist.

Old Group name:
New Group name:

Clears some of the internal caches used for reading item files.

Used with loglvl debug or flush, to control which debugging messages are sent to the log file. The list of options must not contain spaces.

Debug information to send to log file:

Used by the dnews admin to disconnect a single channel, select the number 'n' by doing a tellnews status command

Channel to disonnect:

Show approximate disk use of specified groups

NewsGroup or Wild card

Clear cache of ip names/numbers

Show ip names/numbers in cache

Closedown the daemon cleanly

Run the expire process

Check the active.names file and repair

Reset the active.times file to n days ago

Number of days:

Get any new groups from that suck feed

Number of suck feed to check for new groups

Get the active.names from our feeder

Get older news from the feeder

NewsGroup or Wild card number of days

Age all groups one day

Merge active.add into active.dat

Remove duplicate groups in the active file

Enter your registration key

Key to enter:

Actually delete group from active.dat if empty

Group to remove:

killitem grpname num Delete a specific item and cross posts

Group name: Item number:

killitem "<message_id>" Delete by message id, enter the message id in the group field above and leave the number empty

Delete a specific item

Group name: Item number:

Display last 50 lines of log file

Create file chan_n.log for channel [n]

log channel number:

Set debug level on the fly

Set loglvl to:

Delete groups that don't match ME feed

Add and remove groups to match the place we suck from

name y|m creator desc Add a new group

Name: normal/moderated (y|m)

Creator: Description:

Remove groups marked as deleted

Scan db for items not in the history file

Delete db index and rebuild from item files, takes hours

Send articles again, to create fts index

Reject a specific item from Ihave feed

Reload news.conf ...

Get a new fts index from disk

Removes items not in history (medium speed)

EMail status to manager

Requeue builtin feeds

(ONLY FOR NEW SYSTEMS) Clears ALL item numbers

Mark group as deleted

NewsGroup or Wild card

Rotate the .log files

Set Megabytes used

Process a text file as if it had been recieved as a checkgroups control message, the file should have the normal headers and must be placed in the CONFIG directory.

NewsGroup or Wild card

Show mem use in detail

Show the contents of the update queue

Show users who have been connected and stats

Show how fast articles are arriving

Reset the counters used above

THROWS AWAY ARTICLES - TESTING ONLY

Show statistics on groups since startup

Show statistics on incoming news since last expire

Show statistics on outgoing feeds

Show what server is doing

Test access.conf entries

Domain/IP Number: Username: Password:

Check number of file handles available

Check how much mem dnews can allocate

Lock up Dnews for n seconds

Check how many sockets dnews can open

trimgroups n Delete groups not on upstream site

Number to trim:

Set a group to uncached

NewsGroup or Wild card

Mark deleted groups as normal again

NewsGroup or Wild card

Start a suck update

Clear current update queue

updateone wild [n] Get matching cached groups from suck n

NewsGroup or Wild card Suck #

Send an undocumented tellnews command