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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uuxqt problems with news
Message-ID: <43878@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 13:04:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: beno.43878
Posted: Fri May 22 13:04:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 15:59:34 EDT
References: <116@bvax.UUCP> <311@pollux.UUCP> <1916@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Keywords: news, VAX 730, HELP!
Summary: rnews can already do it
Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:2490 news.sysadmin:212


	One good solution is to create an rnews script that gets
	executed via uucp that simply copies the files into a temporary
	directory with a unique name.  The you can have something
	running from crontab that each hour starts up and processes the
	queued news.  Of course this script can test, either via ps or
	with a lock file, whether one is still running and abort...

If you define SPOOLNEWS when you compile rnews, you will get this
behaviour automatically. (Just remember to run rnews -U from crontab or
you will wonder where your news is going!)

---rick