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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I issue a "sendme" control message?
Keywords: ihave, sendme, control
Message-ID: <1652@frog.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 89 22:38:00 GMT
References: <749@icus.islp.ny.us>
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In article <749@icus.islp.ny.us>, lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
> I had the infamous System V i-node demon attack me today... lost all
> my i-nodes, and then did a fsck and they came back.  Lost about 40 news
> articles, I would like to retrieve them.   How would I go about
> issuing a "sendme" control message with those message-id's that are
> in my errlog ...

The following is a shell-script that I keep around just for such emergencies.
It assumes the presense of a SystemV-like date command, such as the one I
posted to alt.sources and comp.unix.something-or-other a few months back,
and it assumes that uname is the proper way to find out your host name,
and that `uname`.UUCP is your news domain name.  Change these last to suit
yourself.  NEWSSITE should be what your news neighbor knows you as, and
HOST is what appears in the From: line and Message-ID: line.  You could
speed it up a little by just looking at one of your own messages and filling
in these items accordingly.

The input is a list of article ids, the output is a news article suitable
for piping to uux (as in "forgesendme lost_list | uux - neighbor!rnews").

The massaging of errlog into Message-id's is left to the student as an
exercise :-).

----snip----------------snip----------------snip---------------------------
#! /bin/sh
# forgesendme -- a shell script which invents a control article asking
# for lost news.  If an argument is given, it is a file containing
# article ids, otherwise article ids are read from standard input.
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
	filename=/tmp/idlike.$$
	trap 'rm -f $filename' 0 1 2 3 15
	cat > $filename
	set $filename
fi
LINES=`wc -l <$1`
NEWSSITE=`uname`			# change if inappropriate
HOST=$NEWSSITE.UUCP			# change if inappropriate
cat << @@@
Path: $NEWSSITE!news
From: news@$HOST
Newsgroups: control
Subject: sendme $NEWSSITE
Message-ID: <`date +%d%h%y.%T`@$HOST>
Date: `date "+%d %h 19%y %T`
Control: sendme $NEWSSITE
Organization: Restoring crashed partition
Lines: $LINES

`cat $1`
@@@

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