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From: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: limiting news to certain hours of the day?
Message-ID: <287@luke.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 19:23:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: luke.287
Posted: Thu Jul 25 19:23:42 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jul-85 03:25:07 EDT
References: <726@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA
Lines: 34
Summary: 

In article <726@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>Our system is heavily loaded during office hours and can't
>handle the additional load of uuxqt/cunbatch/news-unpack/rnews

Since cunbatch is just a shell script, why not either:

    1) change it to save the file to a special directory and then
        run the original cunbatch at the time of your choice, or
    
    2) replace cunbatch with csavebatch and coordinate with your
        newsfeed to use the new name in their sys file.

Both solutions are basically the same.  They just implement the
suggestions from the original article.  The script csavebatch could be
as simple as:

    SAVE=/usr/spool/savebatch
    if [ ! -d $SAVE ]; then mkdir $SAVE; fi
    NEXTID=`ls $SAVE/[0-9]*`
    set $NEXTID
    if [ $# -ne 1 ]
    then
        NEXTID=1
        touch $SAVE/$NEXTID
    fi
    cat > $SAVE/save.$NEXTID
    NEXT=`expr $NEXTID + 1`
    mv $SAVE/NEXTID $SAVE/NEXT
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