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From: roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: UUCP/NEWS
Date: 11 Oct 1995 15:06:32 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <456e7q$f8q@moon.igcom.net>,
David Bauman <david@terra.igcom.net> wrote:
> I have a client that would like to get newsgroups via UUCP. How do I
> setup my bsdi system to give those groups to the dial-in uucp client?
> I have email running well with UUCP, but I cant figure out how to get
> the newsgroups to queue for a dial-in uucp. Any suggestions?
To send News to an UUCP site, you first have to batch them.
1. insert into your newsfeeds (I assume IN here, don't know Cnews except
that the file is named sys) an entry like the following:
uucp-site\
:some.groups.*:Tf,Wn:
This says to INN that it will have to record the relative pathname of the
articles (the `n' of the Wn parameter) in a file (the `f' of the Tf
parameter) in a file named `uucp-site' in the out.going directory of your
news spool.
Reload the newsfeeds into INN by
ctlinnd reload newsfeeds 'Add UUCP site uucp-site'
2. you'll have to batch the articles now. For this, insert in the news
crontab the following line:
30 * * * * /usr/local/news/bin/sendbatch -c uucp-site
Now, every 30mn, sendbatch will take the articles specified, batch them,
compress them and queue them for the UUCP site uucp-site.
Check the INN FAQ, the INN install guide and newsfeeds(5), sendbatch(1) for
more information.
The UUCP site should be configured to accept ``rnews'' commands from you of
course.
[ E-mail Cc: to David ]
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