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1.1       root        1: From mark ...
                      2: 
                      3: This package of two shell scripts allows you to send outgoing news in batches
                      4: rather than as it comes through.  By controlling the batches, you can
                      5: implement a policy such as "mail goes through at once, but news only
                      6: goes out during non-working hours".  The disadvantage is that news takes
                      7: longer to propagate, so unless you have system load or phone bill problems,
                      8: you probably don't want to use this.
                      9: 
                     10: Basically, there are two shell scripts.  /usr/lib/news/spoolnews <system>
                     11: will copy stdin out to a spool directory.  /usr/lib/news/sendspoolednews
                     12: is run from cron periodically, and will uux all news which has been
                     13: spooled, then start a single uucico.  If you run over a different network,
                     14: you can make suitable mods.
                     15: 
                     16: To install:  mkdir /usr/spool/outnews.  For each system you spool news
                     17: to, mkdir a subdirectory with that name.  The subdirectories should be
                     18: mode 777 unless you want to deal with protection issues, which I haven't
                     19: bothered with.
                     20: 
                     21: Now edit your sys file, changing, say
                     22:        foo:net.all,fa.all,to.foo::
                     23: to
                     24:        foo:net.all,fa.all,to.foo::/usr/lib/news/spoolnews foo
                     25: Install the two shell scripts (mode 755) in /usr/lib/news.
                     26: 
                     27: Add a line to /usr/lib/crontab such as
                     28:        0 0,2,4,6,8,12,17,19,21 * * * /usr/lib/news/sendspoolednews
                     29: to send outgoing news at the given times of the day.  If you want
                     30: it to go every hour, make the 2nd field just "*".  The above entry
                     31: will send news every two hours during unloaded times of a typical
                     32: working day - adjust it as you see fit locally.  A line for a system
                     33: with phone bill problems might look like
                     34:        0 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,23 * * * /usr/lib/news/sendspoolednews
                     35: --- spoolnews
                     36: : ' spoolnews system : spool outgoing news to be transmitted to system '
                     37: S=/usr/spool/outnews
                     38: cat > $S/$1/$$
                     39: --- sendspoolednews
                     40: : ' sendspoolednews : transmit news which has been spooled'
                     41: S=/usr/spool/outnews
                     42: cd $S
                     43: for sys in *
                     44: do
                     45:        cd $sys
                     46:        for file in `ls -rt`
                     47:        do
                     48:                uux -z -r - $sys!rnews < $file
                     49:                rm -f $file
                     50:        done
                     51:        cd ..
                     52: done
                     53: /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 &
                     54: --- end

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