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From: bytebug@fritz.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: cunbatch and news version 2.11
Message-ID: <2760@fritz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 16:15:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  8 16:15:18 1986
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Reply-To: bytebug@fritz.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
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Keywords: cunbatch rnews 2.11
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In article <241@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry F Aguirre) writes:
>I have seen a lot of mail traffic lately under the general heading of
>
>    "I have 2.11 installed so I can switch to rnews instead of cunbatch"
>or
>    "Do you have 2.11 installed and can I switch to rnews instead of
>    cunbatch"
>
>I leave it to the news gurus to correct me if I am wrong but there is no
>advantage to sending compressed batches to remote!rnews instead of
>remote!cunbatch.

As one of the folks who recently contacted Jerry to ask about the state
of news on his system, I can add a couple of possible advantages.  I've
configured 2.11 with both NICE and SPOOLNEWS defined.  When you send
compressed batches to remote!cunbatch, the batch is immediately
uncompressed at full priority, and fed to rnews to spool in
/usr/spool/news/.rnews.  If you send them to remote!rnews, they are
placed directly into /usr/spool/news/.rnews and then uncompressed at
reduced priority when you execute "rnews -U" from your crontab entry.
Since the decompression is delayed, this also reduced the amount of
disk space required in the /usr/spool/news/.rnews directory.  For these
reasons, use of remote!rnews is preferred on a loaded system.

Also, in terms of configuration, I have seperate lines in my crontab
file for "sendbatch -c" and "sendbatch -c -o" and would like to move
the systems all onto one line eventually.
-- 
	Roger L. Long
	FileNet Corp
	{hplabs,trwrb}!felix!bytebug