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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cnews wish
Message-ID: <1989Sep16.002329.8191@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 16 Sep 89 00:23:29 GMT
References: <1401@esquire.UUCP> <1989Sep12.230820.2296@utzoo.uucp> <1403@esquire.UUCP> <1989Sep14.161548.26094@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: news.admin
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <1989Sep14.161548.26094@utzoo.uucp> by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
+---------------
| In article <1403@esquire.UUCP> yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
| >One thing I'm not clear on: using your suggested
| >fix, does inews make room for itself as it goes
| >along, or do I still have to guess how much
| >room to leave for tonight's feed?
| 
| No, you don't have to guess.  The (shell) program that works through spooled
| input checks disk space before proceeding.  It's pretty simple to have it run
| an expire if space is inadequate.  We don't do it that way ourselves, but a
| first-cut version should be a one-line change.
+---------------

As the news maintainer (sometimes, at least) on ncoast, I've taken a pretty
close look at C news.  The good news is that it's quite usable without any
handholding; the better news is that much of it is *simple* shell scripts.  If
you can program the Bourne shell, you can change many things in C news quite
easily.  For example, I modified the batcher to support the ability to batch
for certain sites only at certain times (more specifically, *not* to batch
during working hours on weekdays), so those sites can poll during the day just
to get mail.  It was fairly trivial shell hacking.

++Brandon
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