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 channel feed  written
     as a ``WR'' entry in the newsfeeds(5)  file, for example:

          crosspost:*:Tc,Ap,WR:<config$_PATH_NEWSBIN>/crosspost
     (typically
          crosspost:*:Tc,Ap,WR:/usr/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}' | crosspost

     (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    <config$_PATH_SPOOL>    (typically
     /var/news/spool/articles.)

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

HISTORY
     Written by Jerry Aguirre <jerry@ATC.Olivetti.Com>.

SEE ALSO
     newsfeeds(5) , innd(8) .