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From: jpoplaws@telesci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Updating UUCP maps?
Message-ID: <1013@telesci.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 90 13:55:40 GMT
References: <52@dynasys.UUCP>
Reply-To: jpoplaws@telesci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Followup-To: comp.mail.misc
Organization: Fantasci Incorporated
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In article <52@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>I just started using smail and I was wondering how often and how you
>updated your paths file?  It seems to be a waste to run pathalias
>everytime you get a new map, or a new site posted in news.newsite, or 
>a site update posted in news.config.  Do you actually use these when they 
>are posted to the net?  I realize that the most recent maps are posted 
>in comp.mail.maps, but do you wait to get all the maps before updating 
>the paths file?  How do you handle this and new sites posted in
>news.newsites and updates posted in news.config?  Thanx in advance.

Well here at fantasci, the paths file is re-generated every morning at 5:00a
and it usually lasts until about 6:30a.  This is the time when no-one is usually
on the machine and all uucp is shut off until it is complete.  This insures that
we always have the latest paths data on hand.  As for sites posted as new or
updated in any of the news.all groups, they are basically ignored unless they
are deemed extremely important (ie. updates for backbones like uunet or sites
that we connect to on a regular basis).  This is because if they are updated
or new, chances are they will be included in the next regular map file that
is posted in comp.mail.maps.

Hope this helps...

-Jo
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