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From: merlyn@iWarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Help on sys file
Keywords: help on sys
Message-ID: <1991May30.201940.19569@iWarp.intel.com>
Date: 30 May 91 20:19:40 GMT
References: <1991May30.144855.27644@news%jho@iex.com> <1991May30.172132.4493@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: jeff@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Jeff Wandling)
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In article <1991May30.172132.4493@henson.cc.wwu.edu>, jeff@henson (Jeff Wandling) writes:
| john@news%jho@iex.com (John Ho) writes:
| 
| >I am running Cnews and I tried to forward the group "misc.jobs.contract" 
| >to "barry" on a remote site called "payday" connected by uucp. I followed the
| >documentation and put in the following line but nothing happens.
| >Can someone tell me why?
| 
| >barry:misc.jobs.contract:f:mail payday!barry
|  ^^^^^
| 
| I'm sure you want the name of the machine ("payday") here instead.
| 
| From the NutShell Book on USENET & UUCP p172:
| 
| "The sys file should contain a line for every system for which you 
| forward news...
| 
| Each line contains four fields:
| 
| - A system name
| - The newsgroups to be forwarded to that system
| - Flags describing connections
| - The command to run to send news to the remote site. (If not the default)"

Bzzzt.  Wrong.  Thanks for playing.

The first field is pretty much arbitrary, *except* that the name is
checked against the "Path:" line of the article in question and
*won't* be sent if there's a match.

The problem is the second field.  The distribution control defaults to
the *same* as the newsgroup list.  You'd have to have a
"Distribution:" of exactly "misc.jobs.contract" on the article in
question.  Not very likely.  What you want is:

send-it-to-barry:misc.jobs.contract/all:f:mail payday!barry

See?  Wasn't too hard. :-)

Just another Cnews admin (for over 16 months now...),
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