weyh@ladwp.UUCP (Darwin C. Weyh) (04/13/90)
I have a problem with my sys file. I don't have much room and need to cut out some newsgroups. I only want some of the alt. subgroups and I don't want the amiga and atari stuff. I end up with hundreds of articles in my junk ng that should have been rejected. Here is my sys entry: ME:world,comp,sci,news,rec,misc,alt.fishing, \ alt.great-lakes,alt.hackers,alt.sources,alt.hackers,na,usa,ca,la, \ !comp.sys.amiga,!comp.sys.atari,!comp.binaries.amiga,!comp.binaries.atari, \ to:: This is all on one line. I still get stuff for other alt ngs and the atari and amiga ngs in my junk ng. Does someone have a manual on the sys file, also is there a line length limit. thanks in advance -- ============================================================================ Darwin C. Weyh -- Consultant for the Los Angeles Dept of Water and Power POB 111 Rm 848 Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 580-0822 ============================================================================
swindon.ingr.com (Nik Simpson x4333) (02/01/91)
I'm having trouble getting my sys file to work the way I want, locally we have to sets of groups one of which is for information to go to customers and the other for internal discussion. The customer groups are ingruk.ibbs.* and I want only this part of the ingruk hierarchy sent to the customer bulletin board. To achieve this I have the follwoing sys file which I thought should work :- ME:all,!bionet,!nlnet,!biz,!hsv,!psu,!pubnet,!u3b,!ca,!ba:: swindon:all:F:/usr/spool/news/batch/swindon ibbsuk:ingruk.ibbs.all:F:/usr/spool/news/batch/ibbsuk Currently no articles sent to the ingruk.ibbs hierarchy are queued to send to the customer bulletin board (ibbsuk). The software is CNEWS patched upto the December 15 patch (thanx to everyone who sent me patches). If anybody can tell me what I'm doing wrong or point me in the directioon of the right part of the "fine manual" I would be grateful. PS as well as the ingruk newsgroup hierarchy there is also a ingruk distribution, I don't think that will make any difference, but you can't have too much info. -- |--------------------------------------------------| | Nik Simpson UUCP :uunet!ingr!swindon!st_nik!nik| | Systems Consultant (UNIX). Intergraph UK Ltd. | |--------------------------------------------------|
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (02/02/91)
In article <1991Feb1.134328.14986@st_nik!swindon.ingr.com> n_simpson@swindon.ingr.com writes: > swindon:all:F:/usr/spool/news/batch/swindon > ibbsuk:ingruk.ibbs.all:F:/usr/spool/news/batch/ibbsuk > > Currently no articles sent to the ingruk.ibbs hierarchy are queued to >send to the customer bulletin board (ibbsuk). Try this instead: ibbsuk:ingruk.ibbs/all:F:/usr/spool/news/batch/ibbsuk You don't need the ".all" unless you want to send the subgroups but exclude ingruk.ibbs itself. And you do need a distribution subfield -- following the slash -- or stuff will be sent only if it also has ingruk.ibbs.something as its distribution. See relaynews(8) and news(5) for detailed discussion. Note that the sample C News sys file takes pains to point out the explicit use of distributions. -- "Maybe we should tell the truth?" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Surely we aren't that desperate yet." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry