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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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