Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!david From: david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: c-news: Date: too far in the future??? Message-ID: <1991Apr1.215414.15062@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 1 Apr 91 21:54:14 GMT References: <0HL_7MB@smurf.sub.org> Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL Lines: 27 In article <0HL_7MB@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >Incidentally, another problem with these patches is that they stop >compressed batches from working because there's no more newsrun trying to >uncompress them any more. >My fix was to create a special "crnews" script to send compressed batches to >which uncompresses the news as they come in and passes them to rnews. I >suppose it's equally possible to pipe directly into relaynews. > >Other than that, running relaynews as daemon and letting nntpd create a file >per article seems to work OK. The daemon mode shoud probably be part of C News >proper, if only to make sure that such mistakes as the above don't happen >again. ;-) The solution that we use is to place all the NNTP "batches" into NEWSPOOL/in.nntp and run the daemon relaynews with the -S option to change the default directory. Batches that arrive compressed via UUCP are placed in the normail in.coming directory and get picked up by the normal newsrun processing. No code needs to be changed or special scripts run. -David -- David Robinson david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov {decwrl,usc,ames}!elroy!david Disclaimer: No one listens to me anyway! "Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." - Stewart Brand