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 is run periodically out of
cron to put together batches and send them to remote UUCP sites.
It makes it possible to reduce bandwidth usage and to send news to remote UUCP
sites which cannot receive a real-time feed (for instance if they are over
dial-up connections).
OPTIONS¶
Any arguments provided to the program are interpreted as a list of sites
specified 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 in
pathetc as set in
inn.conf. Each site is specified with a line of the form:
site[:host[:funnel]] [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.
- funnel
- In the case of a site configured as a funnel, send-uucp needs to
flush the channel (or exploder) being used as the target of the funnel
instead of flushing the site. This is the way to tell send-uucp the
name of the channel or exploder to flush for this site. If not specified,
default to flushing the site.
- compressor
- The compression method to use for batches. This should be one of
"bzip2", "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 "gzip".
- maxsize
- The maximum size in bytes of a single batch before compression. The
default value is 500000 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 separated 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 hash sign ("#") then the rest of the line is ignored.
EXAMPLE¶
Here is an example for the
send-uucp.cf configuration file:
zoetermeer gzip 1048576 5,18,22
hoofddorp gzip 1048576 5,18,22
pa3ebv gzip 1048576 5,18,22
drinkel bzip2 1048576 5,6,18,20,22,0,2
manhole compress 1048576 5,18,22
owl compress 1048576
able
pern::MYFUNNEL!
This defines eight UUCP sites. The first three and the last two use
"gzip" compression, the fourth site ("drinkel") uses
"bzip2" and the remaining sites ("manhole" and
"owl") use "compress". The first six use a batch size of
1 MB, and the two last sites ("able" and "pern")
use 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 06:00, 20:00, 00:00, and 02:00. There are no
restrictions on when batches will be generated for "owl",
"able" and "pern".
The "pern" site is configured as a funnel into "MYFUNNEL!".
send-uucp will issue "ctlinnd flush MYFUNNEL!" instead of
"ctlinnd flush pern".
As for the
newsfeeds file, the usual flags used for a UUCP feed are
"Tf,Wnb". Here is a typical entry for "zoetermeer", where
the batching is kept between 4 KB and 1 KB:
zoetermeer\
:*,!junk,!control,!control.*/!foo\
:Tf,Wnb,B4096/1024:
FILES¶
- pathbin/send-uucp
- The Perl script itself used to create news batches from the outgoing
files.
- pathetc/send-uucp.cf
- The configuration file which specifies a list of sites to be
processed.
HISTORY¶
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>.
SEE ALSO¶
innd(8),
newsfeeds(5),
uucp(8).