lwv@n8emr.UUCP (11/21/87)
I am looking for expert assistance in the use of the ihave/sendme type protocol. What I REALLY want to do is to be able to generate messages which tell my feeding site "Whoops! Some how I missed this article when unbatching. Can you please resend it?". I dont want a lot of overhead typically, this is usually a once in a while situation - I run out of disk space, permission modes wrong, something. When I try to post a message to the control group to have the feed sendme the articles, it only appears locally. I assume that somewhere a flag has been compiled in that keep control postings local. What I REALLY want is some how to limit distribution to JUST the site feeding me. Anyone have any ideas? One other, unrelated question. If one has a series of uucico's running, and for some reason have to stop things quickly, what is the best techniques to do this? Is there a signal to send it to say 'cleanly shut down after the current batch, removing all lock files and leaving all unprocessed batches for later handling?" Something like this would be nice to have in the routine which shuts down a system for maintenance, standalone time, etc. Thanks!! -- Larry W. Virden 75046,606 (CIS) 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 cbosgd!n8emr!lwv HAM/SWL BBS (HBBS) 614-457-4227.. 300/1200 bps We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children.
geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (11/23/87)
In article <347@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes: > I am looking for expert assistance in the use of the ihave/sendme type > protocol. What I REALLY want to do is to be able to generate messages which > tell my feeding site "Whoops! Some how I missed this article when unbatching. > Can you please resend it?". I dont want a lot of overhead typically, this Try the following script, which is used as: askfor site-name < list-of-article-id's For example, when all the i-nodes magically disappear on my news partition (a weird problem that only affects that partition), I run the following command: egrep 'No space' /usr/lib/news/errlog | cut -f2 | askfor trwrb The script runs for quite a while because it posts lots of articles to control (even though it does batch ID's as much as it thinks it can), so you should run it in background. Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff P.S. For BSD sites, xargs is being used here to group article ID's into lines of 60 characters. You can do the same thing with awk or directly in the shell, or you cn try to get xargs from the net. -----------cut here, and don't forget my signature at the end!------------ : Use /bin/sh # # $Header$ # # $Log$ # # Ask a news neighbor for specific articles. # # Usage: # # askfor dest-site < list-of-article-ids OURSITE=`uname -n` INEWS=/usr/lib/news/inews case $# in 1) ;; *) echo 'Usage: askfor dest-site < list-of-article-ids' 1>&2 exit 1 ;; esac DEST=$1 TMP=/tmp/askfor$$ trap "/bin/rm ${TMP}?; exit 1" 1 2 15 echo 'Thank you' > ${TMP}a xargs -s60 echo > ${TMP}b while read arts do $INEWS -n to.$DEST -t "cmsg sendme $arts $OURSITE" < ${TMP}a done < ${TMP}b /bin/rm ${TMP}? exit -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff
koblas@mips.COM (David Koblas) (10/03/88)
I'm offically stumped. I've set up a ihave/sendme feed, and there is a
problem where 'mips' (a machine) thinks that it is another machine
'linus'. Now hardcoding "mips" into the sendbatch script still
generates a 'ihave linus' control messages. So my question becomes,
has anyone ever heard/had this problem, or can someone point me to a
section of the news software that I can go over with a fine tooth comb
to track down this problem. This problem has only effected the
ihave/sendme side of the world, everthing else is just fine beliving
that 'mips' is 'mips'.
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