Commands

Nearly all commands have the following common options:

-cfg

Path to configuration file. May be overridden by NNCPCFG environment variable. If file file is an encrypted eblob, then ask for passphrase to decrypt it first.

-debug

Print debug messages. Normally this option should not be used.

-minsize

Minimal required resulting packet size, in KiBs. For example if you send 2 KiB file and set -minsize 4, then resulting packet will be 4 KiB (containing file itself and some junk).

-nice

Set desired outgoing packet niceness level.

-replynice

Set desired reply packet niceness level. Only freq and exec packets look at that niceness level.

-via

Override via configuration option for destination node. Specified nodes must be separated with comma: NODE1,NODE2. With -via - you can disable relaying at all.

-spool

Override path to spool directory. May be specified by NNCPSPOOL environment variable.

-log

Override path to logfile. May be specified by NNCPLOG environment variable.

-quiet

Print only errors, omit simple informational messages. In any case those messages are logged, so you can reread them using nncp-log command.

-progress, -noprogress

Either force progress showing, or disable it.

-version

Print version information.

-warranty

Print warranty information (no warranty).