lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) (04/05/89)
For those who don't have HDB, skip this message ... I'm not crazy for
posting about HDB here, lots of us have it ... so I'm sure someone can
answer my question!
Does anyone know if the HDB Grading works with the UNIX pc version? I'm
not sure if this has been asked before, I've played with it a bit, but
couldn't get anything to work... What I want to do is basically send mail
to a particular site ON DEMAND *all* day, but only send news after the
rates get lower (or when the poll for it).
According to some documentation on HDB, the correct syntax is in the
Systems file to put:
system Any/A,Any2300-0700;5 ... [rest of the line follows] ..
Then if the mail is queued up at "grade A" it will go out anytime, but
anything else will have to wait to 11:00PM to 7:00AM (with a retry time
of 5 minutes). I know the uucp and uux command have grades with the "-g"
option, but does uucico look at them? Is my syntax wrong? Or am
I just crazy ;-)?
-Lenny
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ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) (04/07/89)
In article <655@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes: >Does anyone know if the HDB Grading works with the UNIX pc version? Sorry, Lenny, but I believe we lost out on this one. Grading is in the version of HDB following what we have, or so I've heard somewhere along the way. It sure would be a nice thin got have. >I know the uucp and uux command have grades with the "-g" >option, but does uucico look at them? Yes, but only for priority -- a grade A task will be shipped prior to a grade B task. But any call will handle the full catastrophe, unless the connection dies. >Is my syntax wrong? I think you got it right. >Or am I just crazy ;-)? No comment. ;-) -- Karl Swartz |UUCP {ames!hc!rt1,decuac!netsys}!ditka!kls 1-505/667-7777 (work) |ARPA rt1!ditka!kls@hc.dspo.gov 1-505/672-3113 (home) |BIX kswartz "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." (Twain)
mml@magnus.UUCP (Mike Levin) (04/08/89)
Although grading is not available, let me share with you a few tricks for accomplishing sending news at special times, or only upon polling. First, set up the 'sys' file for that system to batch- that will create entries in /usr/spool/batch/-sysname- for each article to be sent, but doesn't hand them over to the uucp system. Then, simply create a cron entry to handle doing a 'sendbatch' at the appropriate time, and that allows you to not call them with the news during the day. Next, if you want to get a bit fancier, set up so that when that system logs in (i.e. polls you), they don't directly start up uucico, but rather a script (or executable) which first invokes the sendbatch (in background), sleeps for about 10-15 seconds (depending on how fast your machine is), and THEN starts up uucico. That way, when they call you, they get the news during that connection, but if you are simply sending a piece of mail to them, that's all they get. SUPER-FANCY- set up multiple logins for them. I.E.- if the system is called 'foo', set up Ufoo for mail only, and Nfoo for mail+news. Thus, Ufoo simply starts up uucico, and Nfoo does the forking off of sendbatch. We run that way on our Pyramid at work, as we have a number of sites that we offer news+mail service to, but we don't want to pay for news. If you write executables to do this, please copy me (or post), if you do scripts (that's all we've done, thus far) I'd still be interested in seeing how YOU do it. If you are unsure, email me and I'll send you copies of the scripts ( I wouldn't post them-- they're pretty lame). Mike Levin -- _ _ | | ___ ___ |_| ___ Michael Levin SilentRadio Headquarters- Los Angeles | |/ ._\| | || || \ 20732 Lassen Street, Chatsworth CA 91311 U.S.A. |_|\___/ \_/ |_||_|_| {pacbell|pyramid|csun}!srhqla!levin - levin@magnus.UUCP