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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: considerbatch - news batching disk space limiter
Message-ID: <5520@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 89 16:55:48 GMT
References: <3360@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <3360@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>Considerbatch simply refuses to run sendbatch on batched-but-not-queued
>articles if the amount of stuff already queued for the site exeeds a limit...

That was for HDB.  Here's my code for sendbatch under 4.3BSD.  At the
beginning of sendbatch define MAXPENDING to be the limit of the number
of bytes of pending output per site.  Modify code near the end of
sendbatch as follows:

       if test -n "$DOIHAVE" -a -s /usr/spool/batch/$rmt.ihave
       then
          ... something ...
       else
            pending=`uuq -l | fgrep ${rmt}: | awk '{print $4}'`
            if test "$pending" -gt $MAXPENDING
            then
               echo "sendbatch exiting -- too much uucp pending for $rmt"
               exit 1
            fi
            (eval $ECHO; eval $CMD $COMP $C7) |
            if test -s /usr/spool/batch/$rmt.cmd
            then
                 /usr/spool/batch/$rmt.cmd
            else
                 uux - -r -z -n -gd $rmt!$RNEWS
            fi
       fi
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