NAME¶
send-uucp - Send Usenet articles via UUCP
SYNOPSIS¶
send-uucp [
SITE ...]
DESCRIPTION¶
The
send-uucp program processes batch files written by
innd(8) to
send Usenet articles to UUCP sites. It reads a configuration file to control
how it behaves with various sites. Normally, it's run periodically out of cron
to put together batches and send them to remote UUCP sites.
OPTIONS¶
Any arguments provided to the program are interpreted as a list of sites
specfied in
send-uucp.cf for which batches should be generated. If no
arguments are supplied then batches will be generated for all sites listed in
that configuration file.
CONFIGURATION¶
The sites to which articles are to be sent must be configured in the
configuration file
send-uucp.cf. Each site is specified with a line of
the form:
site[:host] [compressor [maxsize [batchtime]]]
- site
- The news site name being configured. This must match a site name from
newsfeeds(5).
- host
- The UUCP host name to which batches should be sent for this site. If
omitted, the news site name will be used as the UUCP host name.
- compressor
- The compression method to use for batches. This should be one of compress,
gzip or none. Arguments for the compression command may be specified by
using "_" instead of spaces. For example, "gzip_-9".
The default value is "compress".
- maxsize
- The maximum size of a single batch before compression. The default value
is 500,000 bytes.
- batchtime
- A comma separated list of hours during which batches should be generated
for a given site. When send-uucp runs, a site will only be
processed if the current hour matches one of the hours in
batchtime. The default is no limitation on when to generate
batches.
Fields are seperated by spaces and only the site name needs to be specified,
with defaults being used for unspecified values. If the first character on a
line is a "#" then the rest of the line is ignored.
EXAMPLE¶
Here is an example send-uucp.cf configuration file:
zoetermeer gzip 1048576 5,18,22
hoofddorp gzip 1048576 5,18,22
pa3ebv gzip 1048576 5,18,22
drinkel gzip 1048576 5,6,18,20,22,0,2
manhole compress 1048576 5,18,22
owl compress 1048576
able
This defines seven UUCP sites. The first four use gzip compression and the last
three use compress. The first six use a batch size of 1MB, and the last site
(able) uses the default of 500,000 bytes. The zoetermeer, hoofddorp, pa3ebv,
and manhole sites will only have batches generated for them during the hours
of 05:00, 18:00, and 22:00, and the drinkel site will only have batches
generated during those hours and 20:00, 00:00, and 02:00. There are no
restrictions on when batches will be generated for owl or able.
FILES¶
- pathetc/send-uucp.cf
- Configuration file specifying a list of sites to be processed.
NOTES¶
The usual flags used for a UUCP feed in the
newsfeeds file are
"Tf,Wfb".
SEE ALSO¶
innd(8),
newsfeeds(5),
uucp(8)
AUTHOR¶
This program was originally written by Edvard Tuinder <ed@elm.net> and
then maintained and extended by Miquel van Smoorenburg
<miquels@cistron.nl>. Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> cleaned up the
code for inclusion in INN. This manual page was written by Mark Brown
<broonie@sirena.org.uk>.