---
name: "newsflashconfig"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "newsflash"
version: "0.99-8"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/newsflashconfig"
---

# newsflashconfig(1)

configures newsflash

## NAME

newsflashconfig - configures newsflash

## SYNOPSIS

**newsflashconfig**\

## DESCRIPTION

Newsflashconfig builds the configurationfiles for newsflash from the active  file of inn. It reads all newsgroups except junk and control, splits them  up in groups of four writes this groups in files named list\[1-9\] and writes the corresponding serverlistfile. For every file containing four newsgroups there is a corrosponding file wich the same newsgroups in disjunct order. It will write a timestamp 24 hours ago in the serverlistfile, so the new news from last 24 hours will fetched from the server given by the user during the configuration. If you want fetch more or less news you have to edit this timestamp. Newsflash will write this timestamp after every run, so no edit is needed after the first run. It is strongly recommended to edit this lists for optimization. The best configuration depends from your newsserver and your connection, so you have to play with it. So it is better to make an entry \

comp.os.linux.\*

than three entries.

comp.os.linux.hardware\
 comp.os.linux.newusers\
 comp.os.linux.misc\

but the first entry should always be a single newsgroups to speed up the  negotiations. For further information and examples read /usr/doc/newsflash/README

## SEE ALSO

newsflash

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matthias Kabel \<mkabel@debian.org\>.