[news.software.b] NNTP and Cnews batch?

bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) (05/06/91)

Does anyone have an example of how to make the Cnews batch _sending_
mechanism (sendbatches) work with NNTP news transmission (nntpxmit)?
(Currently I'm bypassing sendbatches all together, but I like it's
logging etc information). Thanks.

Brian
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cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) (05/07/91)

In article <BGLENDEN.91May6115511@colobus.cv.nrao.edu> bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes:
>Does anyone have an example of how to make the Cnews batch _sending_
>mechanism (sendbatches) work with NNTP news transmission (nntpxmit)?
>(Currently I'm bypassing sendbatches all together, but I like it's
>logging etc information). Thanks.

I run nntpsend (which comes with nntp), but leave entries in batchparms
for that site with a maximum queuelen of zero ie:

cs              1750000 0       nntpbat cat     vianntp

This reports the queuelength for each run of sendbatches.

[ The nntpbat/vianntp scripts are what I used to use to run batched nntp ]
[ from sendbatches.  It works but it's not wonderful.                    ]
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