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- From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives
- Subject: [news.software.b] Announcing "sendbatches" for InterNetNews
- Followup-To: news.software.b
- Date: 4 Sep 1992 06:04:04 GMT
- Organization: tomorrow, maybe
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- Approved: adam@soda.berkeley.edu
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <186u8kINN17l@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <inn-announce-real@uunet.uu.net> <1808gsINN106f@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
- Summary: A C-News like sendbatches script and stuff
- X-Original-Newsgroups: news.software.b
- X-Original-Date: 1 Sep 1992 19:16:12 +0200
-
- Archive-name: auto/news.software.b/Announcing-sendbatches-for-InterNetNews
-
- Sendbatches for INN is a small package whose goal is to furnish
- an interface similar to the powerful sendbatches which is part
- of the C-News distribution.
-
- The sendbatches for INN also uses one configuration file
- where the user can specify several parameters such as the muncher and
- sender to be used as well as batch size limits.
-
- The archive is available via anonymous ftp to grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr,
- as /pub/unix/news/inn/contrib/sendbatches.tar.Z.
-
- README file follows:
-
- This package is an attempt to furnish a "sendbatches" for INN with similar
- behavior than its C-News version.
-
- ---------- IMPORTANT ----------
-
- To unpack this tar archive, you should be in $inn (see INN's
- Install.ms file if you don't know what $inn means) when doing
- the tar xvf command.
-
- The files will be put in $inn/contrib/sendbatches and the Makefile
- assumes it really is there.
-
- Rich Salz has agreed not to use the $inn/contrib for official stuff,
- so what you'll find in this sub-directory is not part of the official
- release of INN.
-
- -----------------------------------
-
- This version as well as its extensions will be made available via
- anonymous ftp to grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr, in the directory
- /pub/unix/news/inn/contrib/sendbatches.tar.Z
-
- -----------------------------------
-
- How to install sendbatches for INN.
-
- - Edit and customize sendbatches.ctl, add one line for each site you
- feed batches to.
-
- Field 1: site name (from the newsfeeds file)
- Field 2: maximum # of batches (calls to batcher) per call
- Field 3: size of batch (passed to batcher)
- Field 4: muncher (in the batch sub-dir)
- Field 5: sender (in batch) with its (few) arguments).
-
- Tabulation between each field.
-
- - Change, delete and add whatever you need in the batch sub-dir.
-
- - Run "make" to get sendbatches subst'ed (C version of subst only).
-
- - Give an eye to the script if you wish.
-
- - Check the install part of the Makefile in order to be sure none of
- your custom will be destroyed.
-
- - Run "make install" with appropriate priviledge.
-
- Update your crontab entries in order to run the script.
-
- Example:
-
- 0 * * * * /usr/local/news/bin/sendbatches site1 site2 there foo bar
-
- ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY WITH THIS SOFTWARE.
-
- Comments, questions to Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr.
-
-
- --
- Christophe Wolfhugel | Email: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
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