john@news%jho@iex.com (John Ho) (05/30/91)
I am running Cnews and I tried to forward the group "misc.jobs.contract" to "barry" on a remote site called "payday" connected by uucp. I followed the documentation and put in the following line but nothing happens. Can someone tell me why? barry:misc.jobs.contract:f:mail payday!barry -- ------------------------------------+------------------------------------------- John Ho from Dallas, Texas, USA. | I am technical but I don't talk funny. :-) john%jho@iex.com | uunet!iex!jho!john | Phone: (214)-907-9801
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (05/31/91)
In article <1991May30.144855.27644@news%jho@iex.com> john@news%jho@iex.com (John Ho) writes: >... put in the following line but nothing happens. >Can someone tell me why? The news(5) manual page can tell you why, if you read it. -- "We're thinking about upgrading from | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
jeff@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Jeff Wandling) (05/31/91)
john@news%jho@iex.com (John Ho) writes: >I am running Cnews and I tried to forward the group "misc.jobs.contract" >to "barry" on a remote site called "payday" connected by uucp. I followed the >documentation and put in the following line but nothing happens. >Can someone tell me why? >barry:misc.jobs.contract:f:mail payday!barry ^^^^^ I'm sure you want the name of the machine ("payday") here instead. From the NutShell Book on USENET & UUCP p172: "The sys file should contain a line for every system for which you forward news... Each line contains four fields: - A system name - The newsgroups to be forwarded to that system - Flags describing connections - The command to run to send news to the remote site. (If not the default)" Cheers, -- Jeff Wandling Western Washington University Computer Center uucp: uw-beaver!henson.cc.wwu.edu!jeff Internet: jeff@henson.cc.wwu.edu
merlyn@iWarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) (05/31/91)
In article <1991May30.172132.4493@henson.cc.wwu.edu>, jeff@henson (Jeff Wandling) writes: | john@news%jho@iex.com (John Ho) writes: | | >I am running Cnews and I tried to forward the group "misc.jobs.contract" | >to "barry" on a remote site called "payday" connected by uucp. I followed the | >documentation and put in the following line but nothing happens. | >Can someone tell me why? | | >barry:misc.jobs.contract:f:mail payday!barry | ^^^^^ | | I'm sure you want the name of the machine ("payday") here instead. | | From the NutShell Book on USENET & UUCP p172: | | "The sys file should contain a line for every system for which you | forward news... | | Each line contains four fields: | | - A system name | - The newsgroups to be forwarded to that system | - Flags describing connections | - The command to run to send news to the remote site. (If not the default)" Bzzzt. Wrong. Thanks for playing. The first field is pretty much arbitrary, *except* that the name is checked against the "Path:" line of the article in question and *won't* be sent if there's a match. The problem is the second field. The distribution control defaults to the *same* as the newsgroup list. You'd have to have a "Distribution:" of exactly "misc.jobs.contract" on the article in question. Not very likely. What you want is: send-it-to-barry:misc.jobs.contract/all:f:mail payday!barry See? Wasn't too hard. :-) Just another Cnews admin (for over 16 months now...), -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Intel: putting the 'backward' in 'backward compatible'..."====/
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (05/31/91)
In article <1991May30.201940.19569@iWarp.intel.com> merlyn@iWarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >question. Not very likely. What you want is: > >send-it-to-barry:misc.jobs.contract/all:f:mail payday!barry > >See? Wasn't too hard. :-) I believe that builds a list of article names in the file "/usr/spool/news/out.going/mail payday!barry". I sure hope that was what the original questionner wanted! -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
merlyn@iWarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) (05/31/91)
In article <1991May30.203419.3658@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp (Neil Rickert) writes: | In article <1991May30.201940.19569@iWarp.intel.com> merlyn@iWarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: | >question. Not very likely. What you want is: | > | >send-it-to-barry:misc.jobs.contract/all:f:mail payday!barry | > | >See? Wasn't too hard. :-) | | I believe that builds a list of article names in the file | "/usr/spool/news/out.going/mail payday!barry". | | I sure hope that was what the original questionner wanted! Bah. Have you ever had one of *those* days? :-) Right. What you want is: send-it-to-barry:misc.jobs.contract/all::mail payday!barry copied nearly directly out of my sys file. (Except for the payday part. :-) Just another (red-faced) news admin, -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Intel: putting the 'backward' in 'backward compatible'..."====/