ericm@ibmpa (06/08/90)
i just installed Cnews. kudos to Henry and Geoff- it's
the best piece of pd unix software i've seen.
however, i've got a question: what is sendsys for?
i can see maybe useing it to debug your internal news-feeding
or your up-stream or down-stream neighbors, but today i
got a sendsys control message from bbn.com in cambridge.
seeing as how we get fed from uunet and don't feed anybody, why
did we get it?
eric murray ibmsupt!ericm@uunet.uu.net {ucbvax,uunet}!ibmsupt!ericm
turn off television. go outside. ride bicycle. get a life.elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) (03/06/91)
I am currently re-writing much of the CNEWS /bin/sh code into AREXX (Amiga REXX, the standard script language of AmigaDOS 2.0). For the most part this is simple, since REXX is more powerful than /bin/sh (for example, the batcher ended up MUCH smaller and faster than the /bin/sh version, while retaining all its power and configurability), but some of the control messages are driving me crazy because I simply don't know enough about netnews. E.g., SENDSYS. What the heck? The shell script is simple enough -- it just ships the SYS file out to the requester -- but what's the point of all of this? Is this part of some automated widget that I haven't run across yet in my (admittedly incomplete) browsings of the CNEWS source? The real killer will be "inews". My code is currently just whipping up the appropriate headers and tacking them onto my postings. It does none of the fancy censorship etc. stuff of Unix "inews". Before I release my code to the public, I'm going to have to do something about that. Not that it really matters -- since the Amiga has no protection mechanisms, if someone wanted to bypass the censor, all they have to do is change the article in the spool directory and change its size in the batcher's input file. Hopefully, though, most people won't know how to do things like that. (On the other hand, neither did I, a month ago). -- Eric Lee Green (318) 984-1820 P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM uunet!mjbtn!raider!elgamy!elg Looking for a job... tips, leads appreciated... inquire within...
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (03/09/91)
In article <00668200458@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) writes: >... E.g., SENDSYS. What the heck? The shell script is simple enough -- >it just ships the SYS file out to the requester -- but what's the point of >all of this? ... It's for network mapping and related purposes. Sounds like you really need to get a copy of RFC1036. -- "But this *is* the simplified version | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology for the general public." -S. Harris | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry