samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) (11/24/87)
Is it possible to have a system (with limited disk space) receive a full news feed in compressed/batched format, and then simply pass it on to another system (with lots of disk space), without unbatching it and posting it locally? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. -- Dominick Samperi, Manhattan College, New York, NY ...!ihnp4!cmcl2!manhat!samperi ...!ihnp4!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!samperi
mark@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) (11/25/87)
In article <2054@dasys1.UUCP> samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes: >Is it possible to have a system (with limited disk space) receive a full >news feed in compressed/batched format, and then simply pass it on to >another system (with lots of disk space), without unbatching it and posting >it locally? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Shane McCarron (ahby@meccts.mn.org) and I (mark@ems.mn.org) are currently working on just such a beast. The code is done, and is going through some testing. I have just finished fixing, what I think, is the last bug. We will be testing it here in MN before sending it to Rick for inclusion in the Official News Patches. Suprisingly enough, we call the modification PASSBATCH and it does just what you ask for. It will only work on full feeds and requires that a new key letter ('P') be put into the sys file for the sites which you are passing batches to. To give credit where credit is due, it was Shane's idea, I am just implementing it 'cause he is awfully busy right now :-) -- Mark H. Colburn DOMAIN: mark@ems.MN.ORG EMS/McGraw-Hill UUCP: ihnp4!meccts!ems!mark AT&T: (612) 829-8200
dws@cseg.UUCP (David W. Summers) (11/26/87)
In article <2054@dasys1.UUCP>, samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes: > Is it possible to have a system (with limited disk space) receive a full > news feed in compressed/batched format, and then simply pass it on to > another system (with lots of disk space), without unbatching it and posting > it locally? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Dominick Samperi, Manhattan College, New York, NY > ...!ihnp4!cmcl2!manhat!samperi > ...!ihnp4!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!samperi Yes, That's what I'm doing here! I receive news nightly on my machine, but since I have a lowly 20 Megs of disk space there is no way I could run news on my machine. What I did was to create a shell script called 'rnews' which turns right around and forwards the news on to the big system that I feed. An example which feeds two other machines (more general purpose than just one) is as follows: #This routine intercepts NetNews batches and mails them to uafuts!smods #and cseg!netnews tee temp | uux - -r cseg\!rnews cat temp | uux - -r uafuts\!/sysdevl/smods/usenet/bin/rnews rm temp This is the easiest way that I found to do it...There might be better ways. - David Summers ..!rutgers!pbox!romed!actsn!david ..!rutgers!pbox!romed!actsn!cseg!dws
dave@lsuc.UUCP (11/29/87)
In article <1597@ems.Ems.MN.ORG> mark@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes: >In article <2054@dasys1.UUCP> samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes: >>Is it possible to have a system (with limited disk space) receive a full >>news feed in compressed/batched format, and then simply pass it on to >>another system (with lots of disk space), without unbatching it and posting >>it locally? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. > > Shane McCarron (ahby@meccts.mn.org) and I (mark@ems.mn.org) are > currently working on just such a beast... > Suprisingly enough, we call the modification PASSBATCH and it > does just what you ask for. It will only work on full feeds > and requires that a new key letter ('P') be put into the sys file > for the sites which you are passing batches to. As a hack, why not simply have a script on your passing site which just shovels the data back into the uucp queue? Call it cunbatch, and the feeding site can treat the passing site as a normal feed. The only caveat is that the ultimate target site would get Path: target!feed!... on postings, with the passing site not showing up. So if target doesn't talk to feed or run smail, replies through the Path: header might fail. You could always hack inews on target to get around this. But this saves you having to run any news software on the passing site. David Sherman The Law Society of Upper Canada Toronto -- { uunet!mnetor pyramid!utai decvax!utcsri ihnp4!utzoo } !lsuc!dave Pronounce it ell-ess-you-see, please...
zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) (11/30/87)
In article <2054@dasys1.UUCP> samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes: >Is it possible to have a system (with limited disk space) receive a full >news feed in compressed/batched format, and then simply pass it on to >another system (with lots of disk space), without unbatching it and posting >it locally? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Sure. Replace rnews on the pass through system with a small program along the lines of main() { system("uux - othersys!rnews"); } -- Jon Zeeff Branch Technology, uunet!umix!b-tech!zeeff zeeff%b-tech.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu