tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (10/15/89)
Well, seems as though the B News version of this little script I
posted a couple of weeks ago did have a few problems that made it much
less efficient on B News systems.
In e-mail, Scott Leadley informed me of the following (used with
permission):
Scott> I like your little script to find pathnames for inpaths, but
Scott> it was creating in excess of 20,000 bogus filenames on our
Scott> system (uhura.cc.rochester.edu). There were two problems:
Scott> - cancelled messages generated a filename of "cancelled"
Scott> - lines in history that ended with a blank generated a filename of ""
The C News version doesn't have these problems, but here's a version
that does things better for B News. Thanks, Scott.
#! /bin/sh
# A simple script to set up the input for inpaths before running it.
# It should work just fine for B News when the following batch of variables
# is set for your system. Normally this will be run from cron near
# the end of each month.
#
# 23 Sep 89 -- tale@pawl.rpi.edu
# Modified to eliminate unnecessary empty and "cancelled" lines.
# 5 Oct 89 -- leadley@cc.rochester.edu
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usenet/bin.server
NEWSARTS=/usenet/spool
NEWSCTL=/usenet/lib
NEWSHOST=`hostname`
PATHSURVEY=pathsurvey@decwrl.dec.com,usenet
cd $NEWSARTS
# Hard tab for cut delimiter
cut -f3- "-d " $NEWSCTL/history | # Grab the article names
tr -s '. ' '/\012' | # list pathnames, one per line
egrep -v '^cancelled$' | # junk cancelled articles
inpaths $NEWSHOST | mail $PATHSURVEY
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