---
name: "sendnews"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "postit"
version: "0.5-4"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sendnews"
---

# sendnews(1)

will move some files and invoke properly postit to post news articles

## NAME

sendnews - will move some files and invoke properly postit to post news articles

## SYNOPSIS

**sendnews** sendnews will stop your inn via ctlinnd, move all spooled outgoing articles to a file, restart inn, invoke postit and remove the file after posting all articles.

## OPTIONS

No options at this time

## Configuration File

The configuration file is /etc/news/postit.conf You can define the spooldirectory, the name of your newsserver to post  to and the name of the outgoing file The configuration file is /etc/news/postit.conf

## SEE ALSO

postit, ctlinnd, innd

## AUTHOR

sendnews was written by Chris Blum \<chris.blum@somewhere.org\> This manual page was written by Matthias Kabel \<mkabel@debian.org\> and changed by Anibal Monsalve Salazar \<A.Monsalve.salazar@IEEE.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).