NAME

checknews − check to see if user has news

SYNOPSIS

checknews [ ynqevv ]  [ readnews options ]

DESCRIPTION

checknews reports to the user whether or not he has news. 

y Reports “There is news” if the user has news to read. 

n Reports “No news” if there isn’t any news to read. 

q causes checknews to be quiet.  Instead of printing a message, the exit status indicates news.  A status of 0 means no news, 1 means there is news. 

v alters the y message to show the name of the first newsgroup containing unread news.  Doubling v (e.g.  vv) will cause an explanation of any claim of new news, and is useful if checknews and readnews disagree on whether there is news. 

e Executes readnews(1) if there is news.

If there are no options, y is the default. 

FILES

~/.newsrc /usr/lib/news/active Active newsgroups Options and list of previously read articles

SEE ALSO

inews(1), postnews(1), readnews(1)

7th Edition