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send-uucp - Send Usenet articles via UUCP
send-uucp [SITE ...]
The send-uucp program processes batch files written by innd(8) to send Usenet articles to UUCP sites. It reads a configuration file to control how it behaves with various sites. Normally, it's run periodically out of cron to put together batches and send them to remote UUCP sites.
Any arguments provided to the program are interpreted as a list of sites specfied in send-uucp.cf for which batches should be generated. If no arguments are supplied then batches will be generated for all sites listed in that configuration file.
The sites to which articles are to be sent must be configured in the configuration file send-uucp.cf. Each site is specified with a line of the form:
site[:host] [compressor [maxsize [batchtime]]]
Fields are seperated by spaces and only the site name needs to be specified, with defaults being used for unspecified values. If the first character on a line is a "#" then the rest of the line is ignored.
Here is an example send-uucp.cf configuration file:
zoetermeer gzip 1048576 5,18,22 hoofddorp gzip 1048576 5,18,22 pa3ebv gzip 1048576 5,18,22 drinkel gzip 1048576 5,6,18,20,22,0,2 manhole compress 1048576 5,18,22 owl compress 1048576 able
This defines seven UUCP sites. The first four use gzip compression and the last three use compress. The first six use a batch size of 1MB, and the last site (able) uses the default of 500,000 bytes. The zoetermeer, hoofddorp, pa3ebv, and manhole sites will only have batches generated for them during the hours of 05:00, 18:00, and 22:00, and the drinkel site will only have batches generated during those hours and 20:00, 00:00, and 02:00. There are no restrictions on when batches will be generated for owl or able.
The usual flags used for a UUCP feed in the newsfeeds file are "Tf,Wfb".
This program was originally written by Edvard Tuinder <ed@elm.net> and then maintained and extended by Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>. Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> cleaned up the code for inclusion in INN. This manual page was written by Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>.
2019-02-17 | perl v5.28.1 |