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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is there a way to control the time when news is unpacked?
Keywords: news, rnews, uucp
Message-ID: <1990Feb19.163517.4254@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 19 Feb 90 16:35:17 GMT
References: <239@cmic.UUCP> <1309@ispi.UUCP> <3273@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <3273@caesar.cs.montana.edu> icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) 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).

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

It's not only doable, it's trivial.  C news leaves the incoming batches
in /usr/spool/news/in.coming.  You set up a cron job that unbatches
the news.

I currently unbatch news at 20 minutes past each hour, but I could
easily change this to only unbatch once a day.

Note that you will probably want to unbatch *after* you expire.
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