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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: limiting news to certain hours of the day?
Message-ID: <736@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 20:30:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.736
Posted: Sun Jul 28 20:30:04 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jul-85 21:40:43 EDT
References: <726@lsuc.UUCP> <223@investor.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: we've done it

Well, thanks for the kind posted replies everyone; because of
our uucp problems, I wasn't able to see any of them before
we had to resolve the problem on Friday.

What we did was change cunbatch to a shell file which copies
its standard input into /usr/spool/batchnews/, and create a
new /usr/lib/news/unspoolnews which we run from crontab in
the evenings. It meant we could run uucp all day during the
day on Friday to bring in batches, which was helpful because
our uucp is presently only working at 300 baud, for some reason.

If anyone wants our source to cunbatch and unspoolnews, let me know.

As to other solutions suggested:
	- queueing in the evening was already done; the problems
	  came with our UUCP acting up or our dialer going on the
	  blink, and not being fixed till the morning
	- upgraded UUCP would be interesting. Can anyone tell me
	  what the availability is of a "better" UUCP for us?
	  We're source-licensed for System III and are running
	  v7 UUCP.

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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