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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: ihave/sendme
Message-ID: <1394@desint.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 14:26:27 EST
Article-I.D.: desint.1394
Posted: Mon Nov 23 14:26:27 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Nov-87 05:14:39 EST
References: <347@n8emr.UUCP>
Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA
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In article <347@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:

> I am looking for expert assistance in the use of the ihave/sendme type
> protocol.  What I REALLY want to do is to be able to generate messages which
> tell my feeding site "Whoops!  Some how I missed this article when unbatching.
> Can you please resend it?".  I dont want a lot of overhead typically, this

Try the following script, which is used as:

    askfor site-name < list-of-article-id's

For example, when all the i-nodes magically disappear on my news partition
(a weird problem that only affects that partition), I run the following
command:

    egrep 'No space' /usr/lib/news/errlog | cut -f2 | askfor trwrb

The script runs for quite a while because it posts lots of articles
to control (even though it does batch ID's as much as it thinks it can),
so you should run it in background.

	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff

P.S.  For BSD sites, xargs is being used here to group article ID's into
lines of 60 characters.  You can do the same thing with awk or directly
in the shell, or you cn try to get xargs from the net.
-----------cut here, and don't forget my signature at the end!------------
: Use /bin/sh
#
# $Header$
#
# $Log$
#
#	Ask a news neighbor for specific articles.
#
#	Usage:
#
#	askfor dest-site < list-of-article-ids
OURSITE=`uname -n`
INEWS=/usr/lib/news/inews

case $# in
    1) ;;
    *)
	echo 'Usage:  askfor dest-site < list-of-article-ids' 1>&2
	exit 1
	;;
esac

DEST=$1
TMP=/tmp/askfor$$
trap "/bin/rm ${TMP}?; exit 1" 1 2 15
echo 'Thank you' > ${TMP}a
xargs -s60 echo > ${TMP}b
while read arts
do
    $INEWS -n to.$DEST -t "cmsg sendme $arts $OURSITE" < ${TMP}a
done < ${TMP}b
/bin/rm ${TMP}?
exit
-- 
	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff