Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: sendsys Message-ID: <259@becker.UUCP> Date: 1 Feb 89 23:09:02 GMT References: <197718@hrc.UUCP> <469@acheron.UUCP> Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario Lines: 36 In article <469@acheron.UUCP> clarke@acheron.UUCP (Ed Clarke) writes: +----------------- |From article <197718@hrc.UUCP>, by dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel): |> How do I use sendsys to receive a systems sys file? I wish only to get |> certain sites sys file. | |Don't do it! I tried this and got a number of people p*ssed off at |me. I used a distribution of ny but it got out all over North America. |Furthermore, for I got a 'sys' file for every workstation at a college |here in NY. This caused some irritation in the system administrator |... and responses kept coming in for weeks. | |If you still want to try it, it's a control message that's explained |in the B news documentation. |-- |Ed Clarke |uunet!bywater!acheron!clarke +----------------- Here's a more satisfying explanation - included below is a bare-bones script I use for this purpose. I don't seem to get any response from C news sites however - not sure why this is... --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- /usr/lib/news/inews -t sendsys -n to.$1.ctl -d to.$1 -c sendsys