dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) (07/04/90)
In batching all the articles for several sites I feed, I would like to link all of the D.* files in spool/uucp, (data files only), so that I could save on disk space. Is this possible, and if so, what format do I need to create the C.* files in? -- Dan Troxel @ Handwriting Research Corporation WK 1-602-957-8870 Camelback Corporate Center 2821 E. Camelback Road Suite 600 Phoenix, AZ 85016 ncar!noao!asuvax!hrc!dan zardoz!hrc!dan hrc!dan@asuvax.eas.asu.edu
sl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) (07/05/90)
In article <201572@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes: > >In batching all the articles for several sites I feed, I would like >to link all of the D.* files in spool/uucp, (data files only), so that I >could save on disk space. Is this possible, and if so, what format do I >need to create the C.* files in? I've been doing this for years. It works great. You can either fake it with a shell script, by knowing what the name of a file will be after being copied by uux, you can replace it with a link to the file you want sent. Something like: uux site!rnews < /dev/null ln batch /usr/spool/uucp/site/D........ Even better is uucast by Shane McCarron. It allows you to do a multiple site uux like: uucast batchfile rnews sitea siteb sitec sited ..... I don't know where it is available from, I got a copy from somewhere a year or so ago. I've put a copy in: van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca:~ftp/pub/news/uucast.tar.Z If there are enough requests I can post a shar file, it's a fairly small amount of code. -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca ubc-cs!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice)
gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) (07/06/90)
In article <773@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> sl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes: >In article <201572@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes: >> [ wants to link outgoing /usr/spool/uucp/D* files ] > [ says he's been doing it, suggests how ] Won't this only work where you have identical feeds to the systems in question? Or, do you just funnel everything to your downstream sites, and let them junk what they don't want? I'd like to see a mechanisim that would do something like this, but I think it'd take an intelligent sendbatch to prepare batches common to all (or several) systems.... -- Gary Heston { uunet!sci34hub!gary } System Mismanager SCI Technology, Inc. OEM Products Department (i.e., computers) "The esteemed gentleman says I called him a liar. That's true, and I regret it." Retief, a character created by Keith Laumer.
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (07/06/90)
In article <687@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes: >>> [ wants to link outgoing /usr/spool/uucp/D* files ] >> [ says he's been doing it, suggests how ] >I'd like to see a mechanisim that would do something like this, but >I think it'd take an intelligent sendbatch to prepare batches >common to all (or several) systems.... No, all you need is a way to tell your batcher that this stream of articles goes to several sites, not just one, and a way to tell uucp to just make links. C News provides the former if you've got the latter. -- "Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology must be changed." -John K. Ousterhout | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry