Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bgsuvax!kutz
From: kutz@bgsuvax.UUCP (Kenneth Kutz)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Unpacking comp.mail.maps files
Message-ID: <1567@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 22:01:51 GMT
References: <1059@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Lines: 57
Summary: Unpacking comp.mail.maps files

In article <1059@vsedev.VSE.COM>, ron@vsedev.VSE.COM (Ron Flax) writes:
> This is really a query to determine the best, if there is one, way to
> unpack comp.mail.maps files, since they seem to come in every day or
> so now.
> 
Here at BGSU we have an unbatching scheme as follows:

In "/usr/lib/crontab" we have the following line:

30 5 2,9,16,23,30 * *	news	/usr/local/uuhosts -unbatch

"uuhosts" is a script which will automatically unbatch the map files among
other things.  This script looks for a file called "Batch" in the
"/usr/local/lib/news/maps/comp.mail.maps" directory.  In this file is a
list of maps which have been received and not unbatched yet.  "uuhosts"
then uses this list to unbatch the files.  Another file which comes in
to play is /usr/lib/news/sys which on our system looks like:

tut:oh,net,world,comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,usa,na,mod,to,to.tut:LF:/usr/spool/batch/tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
#osu-cis:oh,net,world,comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,usa,na,mod,to,to.osu-cis:LB:
bgsuvax:net,world,comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,oh,usa,na,mod,local,alt,to,to.bgsuvax::
bgsu-stu:local,to,to.bgsu-stu::
maps:world,comp.mail.maps:F:/usr/local/lib/news/maps/comp.mail.maps/Batch

This file is the SYSTEM subscription list.  Only those newsgroups that you 
specify will be the ones that your site receives.  For example, bgsu-stu
only receives local stuff since we don't want students reading news on
this system. 

Once the files are "unbatched" (which uuhosts does by
calling itself with the "-x" option), uuhosts calls /usr/local/undo_mail
which looks like this:

----------------- Start of undo_mail ---------------------
#! /bin/sh 
cd /usr/local/lib/news/maps/comp.mail.maps
../pathalias -dcbatt u* d* 2> /tmp/path_error | sort > paths 
cp /usr/local/lib/nmail.paths /usr/local/lib/opaths
mv ./paths /usr/local/lib/nmail.paths
cd /usr/local/lib
chmod 644 nmail.where
./uuwhere
chmod a-w nmail.where
chmod a+r nmail.paths
mail -s "Pathalias errors" someuser < /tmp/path_error
----------------- End of undo_mail -----------------------

I hope this helps some.  You should be able to get these scripts
and executables off the net.  They should be archived in one of the
sources news groups.

Any questions e-mail to me.  Good luck.


Kenneth J. Kutz         	CSNET kutz@bgsu.edu
Unix Systems Programmer		UUCP  ...!osu-cis!bgsuvax!kutz
Bowling Green State Univ.       PHONE (419) 372-7493