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From: icsu6000@caesar (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is there a way to control the time when news is unpacked?
Keywords: news, rnews, uucp
Message-ID: <3273@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 90 01:47:36 GMT
References: <239@cmic.UUCP> <1309@ispi.UUCP>
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Reply-To: icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
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In article <1309@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>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:





Why not just rebuild your news software with the SPOOLNEWS options (assuming
you have B news) defined, and then run rnews -U from cron late at night?


I assume this is doable inside C news, although I have no experience
using it.



Hope this helps.
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