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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: sending through an extra system
Keywords: inews send
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.184638.4465@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 18:46:38 GMT
References: <26422@edsews.eds.com>
Sender: news@smsc.sony.com (Usenet News System)
Reply-To: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
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Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
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|> I thought about perhaps using a uusend, although I don't know much
|> about running uucp over tcp/ip (although I've heard it can be done).
|> The problem here is I don't know if a uux can be made to work over
|> multiple hops.  I figure there's got to be a fairly simple way to
|> do this.  Maybe cnews has an easier method.  Ideas/solutions would
|> be appreciated.

This may or may not help you.  We use MIPS as our news feed.  Originally,
we had our news machine talking directly to them over the phone, but
then we added a new machine as an Internet gateway.  We decided that
we didn't want to use that machine as our news machine, but we did want
to use it for news transfer.  For security purposes, we don't allow
rsh or smtp connections between our Internet gateway and our internal
network, so we use UUCP over TCP/IP for mail and news forwarding (TCP/IP
UUCP is very easy to set up).

So, on our news machine (sonyusa), I changed the "mips" entry in the
news/sys file to

sonygate:comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,alt,gnu,ca,ba,to.mips/all:L:uux
- -z sonygate!netnews

On sonygate (our Internet gateway), the command /bin/netnews is
the shell script:

	#!/bin/sh

	PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb

	# For debugging
	# date >> /tmp/netnews.out

	exec uux - -z mips!rnews

This required adding "netnews" to /usr/lib/uucp/L.cmds.

For incoming news, /bin/rnews is the shell script:

	#!/bin/sh

	PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb

	#For tracing batches
	#date >> /tmp/rnews.in

	exec uux - -r -z -gd sonyusa!rnews

So, news coming in from mips is sent on to sonyusa!rnews, and news
coming from sonyusa is sent to sonygate!netnews which relays it
to mips!rnews.

...David Elliott
...dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce
...(408)944-4073
..."You know my motto: Forgive and uh... the other thing."