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| author | Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2024-01-28 11:41:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2024-01-31 20:04:59 +0000 |
| commit | 3e7215242eafc89b2d0cae1f5c3952461d0dc894 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e2bd5550b611d9b52537f97bbfb2e82f4aa02af | |
| parent | 014fbb1551cd37eb5b253763860a91f71371e68c (diff) | |
Add a README.example
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.am | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.in | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README.example | 23 |
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 7850d48..87dcf78 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ man_MANS = innduct.8 innduct-stats-report.8 innduct_SOURCES = duct.c conn.c filemon.c infile.c recv.c xmit.c \ cli.c defer.c help.c statemc.c __oop-read-copy.c -dist_doc_DATA = README.states README.statistics +dist_doc_DATA = README.states README.statistics README.example innduct_LDADD = -lm -loop diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in index 6b06eaa..be9c4e7 100644 --- a/Makefile.in +++ b/Makefile.in @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ man_MANS = innduct.8 innduct-stats-report.8 innduct_SOURCES = duct.c conn.c filemon.c infile.c recv.c xmit.c \ cli.c defer.c help.c statemc.c __oop-read-copy.c -dist_doc_DATA = README.states README.statistics +dist_doc_DATA = README.states README.statistics README.example innduct_LDADD = -lm -loop MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = configure config.h.in Makefile.in all: config.h diff --git a/README.example b/README.example new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd79eaa --- /dev/null +++ b/README.example @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Example configuration +===================== + +On chiark, we have newsfeeds entries that look like this: + + eternal-september/eternal-september.org\ + :!*,uk.*,cam.*,ed.*,alt.*,..(details elided)....\ + :Tf,Wnm: + the.earth.li/earthli\ + :!*,....(details elided)...\ + :Tf,Wnm:the.earth.li + +This specifies innd log feed file + /var/spool/news/outgoing/eternal-september + /var/spool/news/outgoing/the.earth.li + +We have an /etc/news/ducts.table containing entries like this: + the.earth.li + eternal-september feeder.eternal-september.org --port 433 + +The news user's crontab has lines like this: + 10-59/20 * * * * innduct-forall 'ulimit -c 10240; innduct -q !duct' + 36 3 * * * find /var/spool/news/outgoing/ -type f -name '*_backlog_*' -mtime +60 -print0 | xargs -0 rm |