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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Resending news using history file...
Message-ID: <351@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 02:28:34 EST
Article-I.D.: van-bc.351
Posted: Tue Jan 27 02:28:34 1987
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References: <437@walrus.Adelie.COM>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
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In article <437@walrus.Adelie.COM> barry@walrus.Adelie.COM (Barry A. Burke) writes:
>
>Does anyone have a shell script that will re-que news articles using the
>history file? From time to time it is necessary for me to re-send the
>last couple of days' worth of news to one of my leaf sites. Typically,
>I'll run a simple find(1) on the /usr/spool/news directory, sending all
>files modified within the last `n' days. However, this is blatantly
>inefficient, as cross-posted articles are thus sent multiple times (only
>to be dropped as duplicates on the receiving end).
>
>A script that walked the history file pulling out the article pathnames
>for the past "n" days and sticking those back into
>/usr/spool/batch/<system> would be much more efficient, and I think a
>quite useful addition to the news 2.11 distribution.
>

There are two solutions to this. First is what you proposed a shell script
to walk through and find any articles to repost and resend them. A script
was posted recently (Nov/Dec I think) to just that.

Secondly, a simple solution which requires only minimal setup is to add the
following line to your sys file:

	backup:world,comp,sci,news,rec,soc,talk,misc,net,mod,na,usa,can:F

This will create a file called backup in /usr/spool/batch containing the
names of all of the articles received. You should arrange the following in
your daily news cleanup script:

	mv backup.7.Z backup.8.Z
	mv backup.6.Z backup.7.Z
	...
	mv backup.1.Z backup.2.Z
	mv backup backup.1
	compress backup.1

To resend a days feed simply:

	zcat /usr/spool/batch/backup.n.Z /usr/spool/batch/sitename

Compress does a reasonably good job of keeping the files down to a minimal
size due to the regularity of the filenames. I keep two weeks worth at a
cost of about 125k of file space.



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