---
name: "updatenews"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "newscache"
version: "0.99.9-2"
release: "Debian 2.1 (Slink)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/updatenews"
---

# updatenews(8)

post articles from outgoing spool directory and prefetch newsgroups

## NAME

updatenews - post articles from outgoing spool directory and prefetch newsgroups

## SYNOPSIS

**updatenews** \[ **config-file** \]

## DESCRIPTION

Updatenews submits all those articles that have been stored within  NewsCache's .outgoing-queue. Afterwards it retrieves all the articles from the newsgroups listed in the PrefetchFile (This can be configured in newscache.conf).

### OPTIONS

- *--active*

  Prefetch the active data base.

- *--group*

  Prefetch whole newsgroups.

- *--over*

  Only prefetch the overview database.

- *--lock-group*

  Always lock the newsgroup while prefetching it. This improves the performance of updatenews slightly, but nobody else can read this newsgroup while prefetching.

- *--workers #*

  Use # workers for prefetching. Each worker is assigned its own newsgroup to prefetch.

- *--help*

  Print a small help message.

### NOTES

Spool directory must not be located on an NFS mounted volume. NewsCache uses file-locking, which is not supported over NFS.

## FILES

```
newscache.conf NewsCache configuration file
```

## SEE ALSO

[**NewsCache**(8)](/NewsCache/8.md), [**newscache.conf**(5)](/newscache.conf/5.md)

## BUGS

None known so far.

## AUTHOR

Thomas Gschwind \<tom@infosys.tuwien.ac.at\>