NAME

articles-verify - script to verify the contents of the articles database.

SYNOPSIS

perl articles-verify --config=<file>          \
  [--file=<file> | --start=0 [--end=0] ]      \ 
  [--update | --verify | --check]

DESCRIPTION

Reads the articles database and verifies the contents.

OPTIONS

--config

Configuration file contain database access details.

--file

File containing one NNTP ID per line, where each line can be CSV formatted, provided the ID is the first field.

--start --end

Start and end NNTP ids. If the end option is missing all subsequent ids are listed.

--update

For the given list of ids, update the articles database by retrieving renewed copies from the NNTP server.

--verify

For the given list of ids, verify the articles in the database.

--check

For the given list of ids, find missing or invalid entries in the database.

check_articles

Report on the database entries which are either missing, or have reported bad processing.

verify_articles

Report on the requested database entries as to whether they are found or missing.

update_articles

Refresh the articles database, updating any existing records and inserting missing records.

get_subject

Extract the subject from the given article..

get_article

Access the NNTP server to get the real subject recorded for the article, unless we can short cut the network by accessing the information from the project log file.

get_list

Returns the list of NNTP ids from the named file.

get_lastid

Returns the last NNTP id recorded in the database.

init_options

Determine command line options and initialise any defaults.

BUGS, PATCHES & FIXES

There are no known bugs at the time of this release. However, if you spot a bug or are experiencing difficulties, that is not explained within the POD documentation, please send bug reports and patches to the RT Queue (see below).

Fixes are dependant upon their severity and my availablity. Should a fix not be forthcoming, please feel free to (politely) remind me.

RT Queue - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=CPAN-Testers-Data-Generator

SEE ALSO

CPAN::WWW::Testers, CPAN::Testers::WWW::Statistics

http://www.cpantesters.org/, http://stats.cpantesters.org/, http://wiki.cpantesters.org/

AUTHOR

Barbie, <barbie@cpan.org>
for Miss Barbell Productions <http://www.missbarbell.co.uk>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Barbie for Miss Barbell Productions.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.