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From: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uux sending mail on success
Summary: uux -z on SysV systems notifies the user of success
Keywords: BSD SysV uux -z mail success notification
Message-ID: <2104@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 88 13:50:00 GMT
References: <172@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Reply-To: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
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In article <172@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mrw@rex.UUCP (Marilyn Wulfekuhler) writes:
        [When feeding a BSD site news, uux with the -z option functions
as expected (no mail received on uux's successful execution), but feeding
a Sys V site, with virtually the same sys file entry, causes uux to send
mail upon successful execution.]

>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. :-)

Your suspicions are correct.  The uux man page from the October 1984 issue of
the Basic Networking Utilities Software Information Bulletin for System V
Release 2.0 has the following to say about the -z option to uux:
 
                -z Send success notification to the user.

This is contrary to what one would expect from reading the news 211
installation documentation.

Perhaps you can modify the sendbatch script to not use the -z option when
spooling news batches for the Sys V site?

Larry Dighera

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