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1.1     ! root        1: [This is a fairly old (but hardy!) version of nntpxmit.  Erik Fair has
        !             2: promised a newer version with more features "soon".  -- Phil, 15 Oct 87]
        !             3: 
        !             4:      The program "nntpxmit" is an active trnamission client
        !             5: (see the comment in nntpxmit.c for a description of the
        !             6: difference between active and passive clients) written by Erik Fair
        !             7: <[email protected], ...!ucbvax!fair>.
        !             8: 
        !             9:      nntpxmit requires support from the 2.11 news source.
        !            10: Because of this, it must be compiled in the "src" directory of
        !            11: the 2.11 distribution.  You should:
        !            12: 
        !            13:      1. Move the *.c and *.h files to 2.11/src
        !            14: 
        !            15:      2. Move ../common/response_codes.h into 2.11/src
        !            16: 
        !            17:      3. Add the lines in the Makefile in this directory to the
        !            18:        2.11/src Makefile.  You can just cat the Makefile
        !            19:        here to the Makefile in the 2.11/src directory, if
        !            20:        you'd like.
        !            21: 
        !            22:      4. Then do "make nntpxmit".
        !            23: 
        !            24:      Having compiled nntpxmit like that, you need to set your news
        !            25: system up to use it.  Nntpxmit takes as arguments an internet host
        !            26: to connect to, and a file containing a list of articles to send to
        !            27: it.
        !            28: 
        !            29:      So, you might edit your news sys file to have an entry like:
        !            30: 
        !            31: #
        !            32: # NASA Ames Research Center
        !            33: #
        !            34: nike:ucb,uc,mod,to.nike:F:/usr/spool/news/batch/ames-titan.arpa
        !            35: 
        !            36: This will place names of news articles in the ucb, uc, and mod newsgroups
        !            37: in the file "/usr/spool/news/batch/ames-titan.arpa".  This is because
        !            38: we assume the output batch file will be the machine's internet name.
        !            39: 
        !            40: Periodically, you should have crontab run "nntpsend" to transmit
        !            41: the news.  A good choice for "periodically" is every 10 minutes.
        !            42: nntpsend depends on the program "shlock", which you'll need to
        !            43: compile by hand (horrors):
        !            44: 
        !            45:        cc -O -o shlock shlock.c
        !            46: 
        !            47: Also, nntpsend will need to be customized for your system.
        !            48: Fortunately, it's pretty straightforward.
        !            49: 
        !            50:      nntpxmit has an option "-s" which *supresses* statistic
        !            51: logging via syslog.  Additionally, the "-d" option is availible
        !            52: for debugging.
        !            53: 
        !            54:      Please forward comments/suggestions for improvement/bugs to
        !            55: Erik Fair, <[email protected]>.
        !            56: 
        !            57:      [My thanks extended to Erik for writing nntpxmit, shlock,
        !            58: and the stats scripts.  My thanks also to Mel Pleasant
        !            59: <[email protected]> for the nntpsend script.  --Phil]

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