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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!news.ping.at!kukuruz!kukuruz!not-for-mail From: cm@kukuruz.ping.at (christian mock) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Nobody Knows!! Date: 12 Oct 1995 20:39:17 +0100 Organization: private Lines: 53 Message-ID: <45jqt5$efk@kukuruz.ping.at> References: <45h6ee$i52@moon.igcom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.ping.at In article <45h6ee$i52@moon.igcom.net>, David Bauman <david@terra.igcom.net> wrote: > It seems not even BSDI tech support can get me a straight answer on this > problem. Its seems simple enough for someone who has done this, beacuse I > can imagine this has been done before. it seems your problem should be resolvable by RTFM, probably by buying 'managing uucp and usenet' by O'reilly -- a very good book. anyways: > I want 2 newsgroups to batch for a dial-in uucp client. Lets say > comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and info.bsdi.users. What do I put in the newsfeeds > file to have these incoming groups(via nntp) batch in the users UUCP > directory? If anyone answers this, please dont give me one of the > newsfeeds examples, becuase it doesnt work the way I need it to work. you want an example, or you don't? at work (BSDI NNTP server serving 100+ UUCP sites dialing into a second machine), it looks like: ME:!*:: so by default the sites don't get any news, and site/site.do.main\ :comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,info.bsdi.users\ :Tf,Wfb: so that 'site' only gets those two groups, written into a batch file ~news/out.going/site. regularily, /usr/lib/news/bin/sendbatch -c site > /dev/null is invoked (in the standard setup), that one fetches the article paths out of the batch file, creates batches, and feeds them to uux. at work, the setup is a bit different, I basically rewrote sendbatch in perl adding a few things, the most important for your setup is that instead of using 'batcher | uux sitename!rnews' it does 'batcher | rsh dialin-host "uux sitename!rnews"' or the like. of course, your news account on the dialin-host need a .rhosts file allowing this. then, you also need to build rnews on your dialin machine and have it connect to your news server, but that's trivial. (why don't I call this 'consulting' and charge for it?) ciao, cm.