Hi all,

Is there any command that'll list the newsgroups and number of articles
in each group? I'm looking for active groups I want to expose to my
BBS. Some I know are active, others, not so sure. Sort go going
through the spool and counting them using a script, I wonder if a
command already exists?

Thanks,
Nigel

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Il 29/03/22 20:31, Nigel Reed ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any command that'll list the newsgroups and number of articles
> in each group?

LIST COUNTS does this:

$ telnet nntp.aioe.org nntp
Trying 46.165.242.75...
Connected to nntp.aioe.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 nntp.aioe.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.6.1 ready (posting ok)
LIST COUNTS aioe.news.*
215 Newsgroups in form "group high low count status"
aioe.news.assistenza 8180 657 6601 y
aioe.news.helpdesk 7156 5591 1557 y
aioe.news.nocem 15139 10 15130 y

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 22:33:43 +0200
Aioe <estasi@aioe.org> wrote:

> Il 29/03/22 20:31, Nigel Reed ha scritto:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there any command that'll list the newsgroups and number of
> > articles in each group?
>
> LIST COUNTS does this:

I was thinking more like something I can run from a linux command line.

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On 3/29/22 11:21 PM, Nigel Reed wrote:
> I was thinking more like something I can run from a linux command line.

If you have command line access to a news server that's using
traditional spool, you can probably work some find / ls / etc magic to
get what you want.

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In article <t20s08$vqs$1@tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net>,
Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>If you have command line access to a news server that's using
>traditional spool, you can probably work some find / ls / etc magic to
>get what you want.

This information is in /usr/lib/news/active
Subtract for a count.

Hi Nigel,

>>> Is there any command that'll list the newsgroups and number of
>>> articles in each group?
>>
>> LIST COUNTS does this:
>
> I was thinking more like something I can run from a linux command line.

Assuming INN is installed (it provides the getlist tool):

% getlist -h nntp.aioe.org counts 'aioe*' | awk '{ print $1, $4 }'
aioe.it.discussioni 148
aioe.news.assistenza 6601
aioe.news.helpdesk 1557
aioe.system 80
aioe.test 1630
aioe.test.tor 37
aioe.news.nocem 15130
aioe.test.moderated 7
aioe.helpdesk 259

or:

% getlist counts | awk '{ print $1, $4 }'

for your local news server.

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Hi Julien,

Julien ÉLIE a tapoté le 30/03/2022 22:49:
> % getlist counts | awk '{ print $1, $4 }'
>
> for your local news server.
>

On INN 2.6.4 :

"getlist" works but "getlist counts" always give this error :

getlist: unexpected server response: 501 Unknown LIST keyword

There must a configuration for counts... The local (without -h) answer
may said what to do.

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Stéphane

Bonjour Stéphane,

>> % getlist counts | awk '{ print $1, $4 }'
>>
>> for your local news server.
>
> On INN 2.6.4 :
>
> "getlist" works but "getlist counts" always give this error :
>
> getlist: unexpected server response: 501 Unknown LIST keyword
>
> There must a configuration for counts... The local (without -h) answer
> may said what to do.

Could you please try "getlist -R counts"?
This way, getlist will send a "MODE READER" command before sending its
request.

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Bonjour Stéphane,

> "getlist" works but "getlist counts" always give this error :
>
> getlist: unexpected server response: 501 Unknown LIST keyword

I've improved the response innd gives, so that there is a hint about
what to do:

% getlist counts
getlist: unexpected server response: 401 MODE-READER

Of course, if the keyword is unknown or if the server won't allow to
switch to reader mode, the previous answer will still be given:

% getlist unknownarg
getlist: unexpected server response: 501 Unknown LIST keyword

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Voilquin)

Hi,
Julien ÉLIE a tapoté le 07/04/2022 11:47:
> getlist -R counts

It works :)

Thanks a lot!
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