ARCHIVE

NAME

archive - Usenet article archiver

SYNOPSIS

archive [ -a archive ] [ -c ] [ -f ] [ -i index ] [ -p newsgroups list ] [ -r ] [ input ]

DESCRIPTION

Archive makes copies of files specified on its standard input. It is normally run either as a channel feed under innd(8), or by a script before expire(8) is run.

Archive reads the named input file, or standard input if no file is given. The input is taken as a set of lines. Blank lines and lines starting with a number sign (``#'') are ignored. All other lines should specify the token of an article to archive. Every article is retrieved from a token and the Xref: header is used to determine the target file in the archive directory. You can limit the targets taken from the Xref: header with the ``-p'' option.

Files are copied to a directory within the archive directory, <patharchive in inn.conf>. The default is to create a hierarchy that mimics the input files; intermediate directories will be created as needed. For example, if the input token represents article 2211 in the newsgroup comp.sources.unix, it will be copied to <patharchive in inn.conf>/comp/sources/unix/2211.)

OPTIONS

-a archive: If the ``-a'' flag is used then its argument specifies the directory to archive in instead of the default.
-c: If the ``-c'' flag is used, then all directory names will be flattened out, replacing the slashes with periods; and all posts will be concatenated into a single file with the final component name being YYYYMM which means the local execution time of archive(8). In this case, on December 14, 1998, the file would be copied to <patharchive in inn.conf>/comp.sources.unix/199812. Note: The ``-c'' flag implies the ``-f'' flag.
-f: If the ``-f'' flag is used, then all directory names will be flattened out, replacing the slashes with periods. In this case, the file would be copied to <patharchive in inn.conf>/comp.sources.unix/2211.
-i: If the ``-i'' flag is used, then archive will append one line to the specified index file for each article that it copies. This line will contain the destination name and the Message-ID and Subject headers.
-p: Limits the targets taken from the Xref: header to the groups specified in the newsgroups list. The newsgroups list is a comma separated wildmat(3) list of newsgroups you wish to have archive handle.
-r: By default, archive sets its standard error to <pathlog in inn.conf>/errlog. To suppress this redirection, use the ``-r'' flag.

EXIT STATUS

If the input is exhausted, archive will exit with a zero status. If an I/O error occures, it will try to spool its input, copying it to a file. If there was no input filename, the standard input will be copied to <pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/archive and the program will exit. If an input filename was given, a temporary file named input.bch (if input is an absolute pathname) or <pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/input.bch (if the filename does not begin with a slash) is created. Once the input is copied, archive will try to rename this temporary file to be the name of the input file, and then exit.

EXAMPLES

A typical newsfeeds(5) entry to archive most source newsgroups is as follows:

source-archive\
        :!*,*sources*,!*wanted*,!*.d\
        :Tc,Wn\
        :<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/archive -f -i \
            <patharchive in inn.conf>/INDEX

HISTORY

Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. This is revision 1.7.2.1, dated 2000/08/17.