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From: tim@introl.uucp (Tim Chase)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How do I do "sendme"?
Keywords: sendme inews control
Message-ID: <392@inta1.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 88 02:03:47 GMT
References: <1523@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM> <2301@inco.UUCP>
Sender: news@introl.uucp
Reply-To: tim@introl.UUCP (Tim Chase)
Organization: Introl Corp., Milwaukee, WI
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>In article <1523@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM> rns@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Rick Schubert) writes:
	[ stuff ]
>>	/usr/lib/news/inews -c sendme <<EOF
>>	162@checkers.UUCP
>>	375@cloud9.UUCP
>>	377@cloud9.UUCP
>>		.
>>	543@utacs.UTA.FI
>>	EOF
>>
>>When I execute this, I get the error message:
>>
>>	inews: sendme: Can't find sys record for
>>
>>What am I doing wrong?  Am I even close?  Thanks in advance.

Yes, you are pretty close.  This method is superior to the "askfor" script
that has been posted.  It is possible, however, that this method was
added to later versions of inews.  A command like:

/usr/lib/news/inews -c "sendme mysysname" -n to.theirsystame < data

should work.  "mysysname" is name of your system, the "-n" argument
should be a group that you send to your feed's system and
"data" should contain a list of article-ids.

The error message "Can't find sys record..." is telling you that it
can't find the specified system in your sys file (a null name in
this case).

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