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From: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Automatic Updating of pathalias database
Keywords: pathalias
Message-ID: <203@ssbn.WLK.COM>
Date: 16 May 88 12:26:20 GMT
References: <284@trwrc.RC.TRW.COM>
Reply-To: bill@ssbn.UUCP (Bill Kennedy)
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Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. and Associates, Pipe Creek, TX
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In article <284@trwrc.RC.TRW.COM> agnew@trwrc.UUCP (Robert A. Agnew) writes:
>Has anyone devised a job to run in thier crontab that automatically
>copies maps from comp.mail.maps to thier pathalias map database

This certainly isn't pretty but it is part of my nightly news.cleanup script
that runs just before midnight.  It extracts new map arrivals and strips them
into a "world.map" file that contains only those lines that pathalias wants.
I have noticed two side effects, one site in AZ has some stuff in angle
brackets that cause a syntax error and pathalias says there is no way to get
to hq or .sg (both Singapore I think) aside from that it seems to be well
mannered enough.
#
#   Check to see if any news articles have come in
#   with mail maps.  If so they are copied from the news group
#   directory to the map directory and processed there
#
MAPART=/usr/spool/news/comp/mail/maps
ANYMAP=/tmp/newmaps$$
MAPDIR=/usr/spool/plus/maps
#
#   See if there are any new maps
#
ls $MAPART > $ANYMAP
if test -s $ANYMAP
then
	cd $MAPDIR
	cat $ANYMAP | while read map
	do
		mv $MAPART/$map .
ed - $map <<'EOF'
1,17d
w
q
EOF
		sh < $map > /dev/null 2>&1
		rm -f $map
	done
	cat d.* u.* | sed '/^#/d' | sed '/^$/d' > world.map
	chmod 666 world.map
fi
rm -f $ANYMAP
>
>	Thanks -- Bob Agnew
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