testhost(1)
NAME
testhost - test the status of an NNTP news server
SYNOPSIS
testhost hostname [ -a|-n date time |-o ] [ -M ] [ -s|-S filename ] [ -e|-E filename ] [ -N port_number ] [ -U userid ] [ -P password ] [ -Q ] [ -l phrase_file ] [ -T timeout ] [ -d ] [ -q ] [ -z ]
OPTIONS
-a Get the active list from hostname -d This option tells testhost get the descriptions of the newsgroups on the remote server by sending the 'list newsgroups' command. The remote server may or may not support this command. -e | -E filename These options will send all error messages (normally displayed on stderr), to an alternate file. The lower case version, -e, will send the error messages to the compiled-in default defined in suck_config.h. The default is suck.errlog. The upper case version, -E, requires the filename parameter. All error messages will then be sent to this file. -l phrase_file This option tells testhost to load in an alternate phrase file, instead of using the built-in messages. This allows you to have testhost print phrases in another language, or to allow you to customize the messages without re-building. See the "FOREIGN LANGUAGE PHRASES" in suck.1 for more details. -n date time Get the newgroups created on the host since the date and time specified. The date must be in YYMMDD format and the time must be in HHMMSS format. -N port_number This option will tell testhost to use an alternate NNRP port number when connecting to the host, instead of the default, 119. -q This option tells testhost to not display the connection and announcement messages, rather only display the results of the actual command run. -s | -S filename These options will send all status messages (normally displayed on stdout), to an alternate file. The lower case version, -s, will send the status messages to the compiled-in default defined in suck_config.h. The default is /dev/null, so no status messages will be displayed. The upper case version, -S, requires the filename parameter. All status messages will then be sent to this file. -T This option overrides the compiled-in TIMEOUT value. This is how long testhost waits for data from the remote host before timing out and aborting. -U userid -P password These two options let you specify a userid and password, if your NNTP server requires them. -Q This option tells testhost to use the environment variable NNTP_USER & NNTP_PASS to specify a userid and password, if your NNTP server requires them. This option is provided so that the userid & password can't be seen with the ps command, a potential security problem. -z This options tells testhost to use SSL to talk to the remote server, if testhost was compiled with SSL.
DESCRIPTION
Testhost will query a NNTP news server, specified by hostname. The hostname may optionally include the port number in the form Host:Port.Iftheportnumberisincluded,theportnumberspecified by the -N option will be ignored. The default action is to issue the help command to the server, to see what software it is running and what commands it accepts. If the -a option is used, testhost will display the server's active history list. If the -n date time option is used, testhost will display all new groups created on the server since the date and time specified. If the -o option is used, then testhost will display the overview format, which is what the XOVER command returns. If the -M option is used, the command will be preceded with the "mode reader" command, which might be needed by some servers.
EXIT VALUES
0 on success, -1 on failure.
SEE ALSO
suck(1), rpost(1), lpost(1). TESTHOST(1)
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