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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 | #!/usr/bin/perl -w
#============================================================================
#
# touch_newsgroup
#
# Utility to force leafnode to download news from very-low traffic
# newsgroups by reading the last article from the newsgroup.
#
# Copyright (c) 1999 Jim Nicholson <j.nicholson@computer.org>.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
#============================================================================
use strict;
use Getopt::Std;
use Net::NNTP;
my %option = ();
getopts("f:h:v", \%option);
die "No groups specified\n" if (($#ARGV == -1) && (!$option{f}));
my $nntp_host = $option{h} || "127.0.0.1";
my $server = Net::NNTP->new($nntp_host)
or die "Can't connect to news server: $@\n";
print "touching newsgroups on server $nntp_host\n" if ($option{v});
if ($option{f}) {
open GROUPFILE, $option{f} or die "Cannot open $option{f}\n";
while (<GROUPFILE>) {
chomp;
read_article($_);
}
close GROUPFILE;
}
foreach (@ARGV) {
read_article($_);
}
sub read_article {
my ($groupname) = @_;
my ($narticles, $first, $last, $name) = $server->group($groupname)
or die "Can't select $groupname\n";
if ($narticles > 0) {
my $lines = $server->article() #fetch current/first article
or die "Can't get first article in $name\n";
print "read first article from $name\n" if ($option{v});
} else {
print "no articles in $name\n";
}
}
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