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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews batch times
Message-ID: <1989Oct20.033052.3494@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 20 Oct 89 03:30:52 GMT
References: <1989Oct14.175920.14722@daver.UU.NET>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <1989Oct14.175920.14722@daver.UU.NET> by dlr@daver.UU.NET (Dave Rand):
+---------------
| Is there an easy way, under C news, to control the time that
| batching is done for certain sites? Under B news, of course,
| one simply scheduled a sendbatch sitname at at certain time.
| Under C news, I'm not sure...
+---------------

The above technique can still be used under C news, just change the single
sendbatches call to a sendbatches for each site at the proper time(s).

Alternatively, use the fact that "sendbatches" is a shell script.  Viz.,

	# Run through them.
	for sys in $syses
	do
		# SPECIAL:  DO NOT BATCH FOR WEBB-STILES DURING WORKING HOURS!
		if test "x$sys" = "xhal9000"; then
			set -- `date +'%w %H'`
			case "$1" in
			0|6)	;;
			*)	case "$2" in
				0[0-6])	;;
				1[7-9])	;;
				2*)	;;
				*)	continue ;;	# skip batching
				esac
				;;
			esac
		fi
		# End SPECIAL
		# Move into his directory, include it in search path.
		here=$NEWSARTS/out.going/$sys

(This assumes a System V-ish "date" command.  I believe a PD version is
available out of the archives for Berzerk systems.)

++Brandon
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