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From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Nobody Knows!!
Date: 18 Oct 1995 16:26:47 +0100
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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Message-ID: <4636bn$7cv@ida.interface-business.de>
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christian mock <cm@kukuruz.ping.at> wrote:

>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. 

Btw., this can also be done with the "send-uucp" program.  The key is
to drop the rsh command in a file named ${site}.cmd inside the
out.going spool directory.
-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de
					[private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]