Re: Get list of newsgroups?

Patrik RÃ¥dman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes. just run
> 
> echo 'mail me@myhost' >/SNROOT/.outgoing/my.news.server:119/request-list
> 
> and the HELLO script will fetch the list of newsgroups and mail it to you.
> You can also put the command in "request-newgroups" instead, and you'll get
> a list of the new groups since your last list...
> 
> This used to be documented in INSTALL.*, but seems to have been deleted
> for some reason.

Ahem... I just tried it myself and noticed that it didn't work. Obviously
not a feature used by many. :) The patch below makes it work, except that
you'll get multiple lists if several groups are downloaded from the server...
I'll see what I can do about that later.


--- HELLO.in~	Sat May 19 19:54:57 2001
+++ HELLO.in	Thu Oct  4 19:51:21 2001
@@ -123,14 +123,14 @@
 cmd= ; getcmd () { [ -f $1 ] && cmd="`head -1 $1`" && [ "x$cmd" != x ]; }
 
 if getcmd request-list; then
-  nntp "LIST NEWSGROUPS"
+  nntp "LIST NEWSGROUPS" >$tmp
   [ x$CODE != x215 ] && nntp "LIST"
   [ x$CODE != x215 ] && end "Can't request list:$CODE $SAID"
   inform "$cmd" <$tmp || end "Unable to forward results"
   update request-list
 elif getcmd request-newgroups; then
   date=`cat .last-list 2>/dev/null`
-  nntp "NEWGROUPS ${date:-990101 000000}"
+  nntp "NEWGROUPS ${date:-990101 000000}" >$tmp
   [ x$CODE != x231 ] && end "Can't request newgroups:$CODE $SAID"
   inform "$cmd" || end "Unable to forward results"
   update request-newgroups


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