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From: gaeta@pacs.picker.com (jay gaeta)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.software.b
Subject: Bnew2.11 - How can I feed unbatched articles to other site?
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Date: 16 Mar 91 23:13:48 GMT
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Organization: Picker International, Inc., Highland Heights, OH
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I would like to provide a newsfeed to a sister site.  Unfortunately
my system really slows down (probably disk I/O) while unbatching and
uncompressing the news I receive.  I can imagine what the additional 
burden of providing a feed would do to my system...

The sister site would receive an exact copy of the feed I receive.
I have set up Bnews to "SPOOLNEWS", and would like to (if possible) 
send the batched files before they are unbatched.  Is this a feasible
idea?

I would set up a shell script (to be run by cron) that does something 
like the following:
#--------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# SITENAME will be passed as an argument
SITENAME="$1"
cd /usr/spool/news/.rnews
BATCHLIST="`echo *`"
for i in $BATCHLIST
do
	ln $i /usr/spool/news/$SITENAME/$i
done

sendbatch $SITENAME

for i in $BATCHLIST
do
	inews -p $i
done
#--------------------------------------------------------
I imagine that someone more experienced than me, has come up with a better 
scheme.  Would someone like to suggest/provide alternatives?

Jay Gaeta (216)-473-2441
Picker International, Inc.
595 Miner Rd, Highland Heights, OH  44143
(UUCP: ...!uunet!picker!gaeta) (Internet: gaeta@picker.com)