Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wpg!rex!mrw
From: mrw@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Marilyn Wulfekuhler)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: uux sending mail on success
Message-ID: <172@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 88 15:05:42 GMT
Reply-To: mrw@rex.UUCP (Marilyn Wulfekuhler)
Organization: C.S. Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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When feeding another site 'spike', upon successful delivery of each batch of 
news, I get a mail message from spike!uucp telling me that uux completed 
normally.  We are a pyramid 90x running OSx 4.0 (BSD universe) and news 2.11,
patchlevel 14.  We also feed another site, 'bourbon', and both are set up in
the same way, yet we don't get mail from bourbon!uucp after each successful
batch is delivered.  The entries in the sys file are as follows [carriage return
added here to make the line fit in 80 columns]:

bourbon:world,comp,sci,news,rec,soc,talk,alt,misc,net,mod,na,usa,la,no,tulane,
to.bourbon:F:/usr/spool/batch/bourbon
spike:world,comp,sci,news,rec,soc,talk,alt,misc,net,mod,na,usa,la,no,to.spike:
F:/usr/spool/batch/spike

Then cron runs /usr/lib/news/sendbatch, a script which calls uux   
___with the -z option___ (tells to send mail only on failure).  And yes, our 
uux does support -z.

Is this perhaps a BSD / SYS V incompatibility? (bourbon is BSD and spike is
SYS V)  Or is there something more obvious that I have missed?  Any help 
appreciated.

It is a little disconcerting to come in Monday morning and find 280 messages 
in your mailbox, only to realize they're from uucp. :-)

Thanks.
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Marilyn Wulfekuhler           | USENET:      pyramid!rex!mrw
Computer Science Dept         | INTERNET:    mrw@rex.cs.tulane.edu
Tulane University             | BITNET:	     mrw%rex.cs.tulane.edu@relay.cs.net 
New Orleans, La.  70118