---
name: "fedmsg-announce"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "fedmsg"
version: "0.9.3-1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/fedmsg-announce"
---

# fedmsg-announce(1)

send an announcement to the fedmsg bus

## NAME

fedmsg-announce - send an announcement to the fedmsg bus

## SYNOPSIS

**fedmsg-announce** \[**--link** *URL*\] \[*\<common fedmsg options\>*\]

**fedmsg-announce** \[**-h**\|**--help**\]

## DESCRIPTION

**fedmsg-announce** emits an announcement message to the fedmsg bus.

This command expects its message to come from its standard input.

Technically this command is a simpler version of [**fedmsg-logger**(1)](/fedmsg-logger/1.md) that emits on a special topic. It is expected that routing\_policy is specified such that only restricted parties can issue fedmsg announcements.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  Print an help message and exit

- **--link** URL

  Specify a link to go along with the announcement.

## COMMON FEDMSG OPTIONS

- **--io-threads** IO\_THREADS

  Number of io threads for 0mq to use

- **--topic-prefix** TOPIC\_PREFIX

  Prefix for the topic of each message sent.

- **--post-init-sleep** POST\_INIT\_SLEEP

  Number of seconds to sleep after initializing.

- **--config-filename** CONFIG\_FILENAME

  Config file to use.

- **--print-config**

  Simply print out the configuration and exit. No action taken.

- **--timeout** TIMEOUT

  Timeout in seconds for any blocking zmq operations.

- **--high-water-mark** HIGH\_WATER\_MARK

  Limit on the number of messages in the queue before blocking.

- **--linger** ZMQ\_LINGER

  Number of milliseconds to wait before timing out connections.

## EXAMPLES

-

  echo "Debian jessie has been released." \| fedmsg-announce --link https://www.debian.org/News/

## SEE ALSO

[**fedmsg-logger**(1)](/fedmsg-logger/1.md)

## AUTHORS

- **The Fedora Infrastructure team** \<messaging-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org\>

  Wrote the **fedmsg** software.

- **Nicolas Dandrimont** \<olasd@debian.org\>

  Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 Nicolas Dandrimont\

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

On Debian systems, a copy of the license can be found in the */usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1* file.