billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner) (09/04/86)
Help! I am trying to write a shell script that will use inews to automatically post a message to a local newsgroup (let's call it foo.test) once a month. The shell script will run a program, and put the results into an article using inews. There is one slight problem; inews chokes on the idea. Throwing me memory faults. I have been trying.. inews -t 'This is the Subject' -n 'foo.test' -e 'Sun Jan 11 13:13:13 PDT 1986' -d 'local' -o 'Generic Witticism' and piping the standard input from the program who's results I want to post. -?- -- Bill Wisner <insert quote here> ..ihnp4!jack!wolf!billw
blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) (09/08/86)
In article <209@wolf.UUCP> billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes: |I am trying to write a shell script that will use inews to automatically |post a message to a local newsgroup (let's call it foo.test) once a month. |The shell script will run a program, and put the results into an article |using inews. There is one slight problem; inews chokes on the idea. Throwing |me memory faults. I have been trying.. | |inews -t 'This is the Subject' -n 'foo.test' -e 'Sun Jan 11 13:13:13 PDT 1986' -d 'local' -o 'Generic Witticism' | |and piping the standard input from the program who's results I want to post. I have a number of articles I post automatically at various times. The article I post has the complete header, so I just do an inews -h <file, where file is something like: Newsgroups: foo.test Subject: This is the Subject Reply-To: me@here (Here's default system administrator) Distribution: local Organization: My organization Article... This works nicely, and keeps all of the article information in one place if I want to modify the article or the header in some way. By the way, I'm running news 2.10.2. -- Brian L. Matthews Computer X Inc. - a division of Motorola New Enterprises ..{utcsri!utzoo!mnetor, uw-beaver!ssc-vax}!cxsea!blm +1 206 251 6811
clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) (09/15/86)
In article <912@cxsea.UUCP> blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes: >In article <209@wolf.UUCP> billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes: >|I am trying to write a shell script that will use inews to automatically >|post a message ... >|... I have been trying.. >| >|inews -t 'This is the Subject' -n 'foo.test' -e 'Sun Jan 11 13:13:13 PDT 1986' -d 'local' -o 'Generic Witticism' >| >|and piping the standard input from the program who's results I want to post. > >I have a number of articles I post automatically at various times. The >article I post has the complete header, so I just do an inews -h <file, >where file is something like: > >Newsgroups: foo.test >Subject: This is the Subject >Reply-To: me@here (Here's default system administrator) >Distribution: local >Organization: My organization > >Article... > > >This works nicely, and keeps all of the article information in one place if >I want to modify the article or the header in some way. By the way, I'm >running news 2.10.2. Hi Brian. With 2.10.2 at mnetor (given 4.2 mail aliases) you used to be able to simply send mail to a userid (aliased to "|recnews" I think) with the following headers: Subject: ... Newsgroups: ... At the beginning of the file. If you omitted Subject, the article got dropped. If you omitted Newsgroups: you got "general". Since mnetor upgraded to 2.10.3, however, this is busted. Since I moved from mnetor, I had a different need for this, and after some experimentation and checking the source, I came up with the following shell file: userid=<userid> date=`date` sequence=<some unique number> title=<whatever> ng=<comma-separated-list-of-newsgroups> cat > /tmp/AB$$ << From: $userid Date: $date Message-ID: $sequence Subject: $title Newsgroups: $ng ! cat /tmp/AB$$ <file containing text of message> | rnews (note: *not* inews). All 5 of the keywords seem to be required (though, the source seems to indicate that "Path:" will be accepted in place of "From:"). I never had any luck with "inews -t ... ..." - some of the log messages were so mangled as to lead me to believe that core-dumping was distinctly possible. -- Chris Lewis UUCP: {utzoo|utcs|yetti|genat|seismo}!mnetor!spectrix!clewis Phone: (416)-474-1955