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- The program "nntpxmit" is an active transmission client
- (see the comment in nntpxmit.c for a description of the
- difference between active and passive clients) written by Erik Fair
- <fair@ucbvax.berkeley.edu, ...!ucbvax!fair>. A larger comment on
- its inner workings can be found by looking at nntpxmit.c
-
- To use nntpxmit, you should edit your news sys file to have
- an entry like this:
-
- #
- # NASA Ames Research Center
- #
- nike:ucb,uc,mod,to.nike:F:/usr/spool/news/batch/ames-titan.arpa
-
- This will place names of news articles in the ucb, uc, and mod newsgroups
- in the file "/usr/spool/news/batch/ames-titan.arpa". This is because
- we assume the output batch file will be the machine's internet name.
-
- Periodically, you should have crontab run "nntpsend" to transmit
- the news. A good choice for "periodically" is every 10 minutes.
- nntpsend depends on the program "shlock", which make should have
- made already. Also, nntpsend will need to be customized for your system.
- Fortunately, it's pretty straightforward.
-
- nntpxmit has an option "-s" which *supresses* statistic
- logging via syslog. Additionally, the "-d" option is availible
- for debugging.
-
- Please forward comments/suggestions for improvement/bugs to nntp@tmc.edu.
-
- [My thanks extended to Erik for writing nntpxmit, shlock,
- and the stats scripts. My thanks also to Mel Pleasant
- <pleasant@topaz.rutgers.edu> for the nntpsend script. --Phil]
-