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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problems installing c-news with nntp
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Date: 24 May 91 10:33:51 GMT
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In article <21549@brahms.udel.edu> jq@brahms.udel.edu (John W Quillen Jr) writes:
>I can create news-batches of locally created articles, but I can't send them
>to the my newsfeed site. I am using nntp as my transport but I don't know
>how to convince sendbatches to use nntp. I assume I have to put something in
>the last field of the batchparms file, but what? (none of the via??? seem to
>be correct as far as I can see -admittingly not far!-).

Here's how I got nntp transfer controlled by sendbatches.
(I've sent it via email as well as requested)

Beware that this probably isn't the best to run nntp (though it'll get you
started) - nntpsend or nntplink make more sense if you do more than one feed.

This is what you need in the batchparms file.

# NB. I use 'cat' instead of 'nocomp'
# site          size    queue   builder muncher sender
# ----          ----    -----   ------- ------- ------
cs              1750000 4       nntpbat cat     vianntp


You also need to make sure that queuelen reports a zero length queue for
sites fed by this method.

Here follow 3 scripts (nntpbat, vianntp and newsalias) which make it go.

----------cut-here-----------
#! /bin/sh
# nntpbat [-d dir] listfile
#
# Ian Dickinson <vato@cu.warwick.ac.uk>
#
# I'm not sure whether this is correct as I can't find any use of the batcher
# apart from within sendbatches.  This should handle things ok,
# but depends on being in the correct directory in the first place.
#
# Batchparms file should read:
#
# site          90000   12      nntpbat nocomp  vianntp

if [ "$#" = "1" ]
then
        FILE=$1
else
	cd $2
        FILE=$3
fi

cat $FILE
----------cut-here-----------
#! /bin/sh
# vianntp site
# Transmit batch to $1.
# $1 is aliased to find the real hostname as the network knows it.

# =()<. ${NEWSCONFIG-@<NEWSCONFIG>@}>()=
. ${NEWSCONFIG-/usr/local/lib/news/bin/config}
export NEWSCTL NEWSBIN NEWSARTS
PATH=$NEWSCTL/bin:$NEWSBIN/relay:$NEWSBIN:$NEWSPATH ; export PATH
umask $NEWSUMASK

cat > /tmp/vianntp$$

MACHINE=`newsalias $1`

$NEWSBIN/nntp/nntpxmit -s "$MACHINE":/tmp/vianntp$$

if [ -f /tmp/vianntp$$ ]
then
        echo NNTP failed to transmit batch.
        STATUS=1
else
        STATUS=0
fi

rm -f /tmp/vianntp$$
exit $STATUS
----------cut-here-----------
#! /bin/sh
# newsalias site
# echoes the name of the system as the DNS would know it - else $1
# this is just an example.

case "$1" in
        uunet)                  echo uunet.uu.net               ;;
        foo)                    echo foo.bar.baz.com            ;;
        *)                      echo $1                         ;;
esac
exit 0
----------cut-here-----------
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