mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) (01/18/91)
I'd like to be able to poll for mail every hour or so, but only poll for
news three times a day (when the phone charges are off-peak.)
Is there any standard or recommended way of doing this?
mathew.
[ Sorry if it's a stupid question... ]
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If you know anything significant about ISDN, please mail me...jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) (01/20/91)
In article <157yV1w163w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes: >I'd like to be able to poll for mail every hour or so, but only poll for >news three times a day (when the phone charges are off-peak.) > >Is there any standard or recommended way of doing this? > >[ Sorry if it's a stupid question... ] Not at all a stupid question. I published the solution under the rubric of "Alice and the Walrus" in Vol 1, #2 of "The GURU", a new publication for *nix folk (Vol 1, #4) is just now being mailed out. Call 1-800-527-GURU, or write to John Esak in care of CompuServe by addressing your mail to: 76703.746@compuserve.com -- Jean-Pierre Radley NYC Public Unix jpr@jpr.com CIS: 72160,1341
igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) (01/22/91)
In article <1019@iiasa.UUCP> wnp%iiasa@relay.eu.net (Wolf PAUL ) writes: > In article <157yV1w163w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes: > >I'd like to be able to poll for mail every hour or so, but only poll for > >news three times a day (when the phone charges are off-peak.) > > > >Is there any standard or recommended way of doing this? > > > > Since we have source to uucp, we added a switch to uucico to poll as a > different name; however, without source you could just create a shell > script which changes the node name, runs uucico, then resets the node > name to the "normal" name. Any modern-ish uucp can do this anyway. Modern-ish covers almost any UKUUCP, 4.3bsd, SVR3.*, SVR4, SunOS4.1. I have a feeling you can't do it with SunOS{3.*,4.0}. HoneyDanber derived UUCPen (those with Systems, Permissions, etc) set MYNAME=whatever in the Permissions file. It's easier to configure if BOTH ends have two names. ian
chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (01/24/91)
According to jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley):
>I published the solution ...
If you're going to plug a commercial publication on Usenet, the least
you can do is answer the question asked.
"I won't tell you unless you fork over the money" isn't Usenet.
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Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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