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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is there a way to control the time when news is unpacked?
Keywords: news, rnews, uucp
Message-ID: <1309@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 90 12:56:55 GMT
References: <239@cmic.UUCP>
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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garvey@cmic.UUCP (Joe Garvey) writes:

>I would like to hold all incoming news until late at night (even though
>it may be received at all times during the day), before unpacking it (using
>rnews).

>However, I'm unwilling to just stall the whole uucp system that long. Mail
>that comes in should be immediately unpacked. I'm using a HDB based uucp
>on an HP 9000/370 running HP-UX 6.5.



What you will want to do is the following:

	1.	Rename rnews to be rnews.x

	2.	Replace rnews with a small program that will simply do
		a "mv" to move the news files to a holding directory.  Also,
		it should create a command file which will hold all the
		commands necessary to unpack each file.

	3.	Create a cron entry which will execute the command file
		at the time you want.


JB
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