1SEND-UUCP(8) InterNetNews Documentation SEND-UUCP(8)
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6 send-uucp - Send Usenet articles via UUCP
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9 send-uucp [site ...]
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12 The send-uucp program processes batch files written by innd(8) to send
13 Usenet articles to UUCP sites. It reads a configuration file to
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15 periodically out of cron to put together batches and send them to
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18 It makes it possible to reduce bandwidth usage and to send news to
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23 Any arguments provided to the program are interpreted as a list of
24 sites specified in send-uucp.cf for which batches should be generated.
25 If no arguments are supplied then batches will be generated for all
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29 The sites to which articles are to be sent must be configured in the
30 configuration file send-uucp.cf in pathetc as set in inn.conf. Each
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33 site[:host[:funnel]] [compressor [maxsize [batchtime]]]
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36 The news site name being configured. This must match a site name
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40 The UUCP host name to which batches should be sent for this site.
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47 uucp the name of the channel or exploder to flush for this site.
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51 The compression method to use for batches. This should be one of
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57 The maximum size in bytes of a single batch before compression.
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61 A comma separated list of hours during which batches should be
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75 zoetermeer gzip 1048576 5,18,22
76 hoofddorp gzip 1048576 5,18,22
77 pa3ebv gzip 1048576 5,18,22
78 drinkel bzip2 1048576 5,6,18,20,22,0,2
79 manhole compress 1048576 5,18,22
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84 This defines eight UUCP sites. The first three and the last two use
85 "gzip" compression, the fourth site ("drinkel") uses "bzip2" and the
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89 "pa3ebv", and "manhole" sites will only have batches generated for them
90 during the hours of 05:00, 18:00, and 22:00, and the "drinkel" site
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92 00:00, and 02:00. There are no restrictions on when batches will be
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95 The "pern" site is configured as a funnel into "MYFUNNEL!". send-uucp
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98 As for the newsfeeds file, the usual flags used for a UUCP feed are
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116 This program was originally written by Edvard Tuinder <ed@elm.net> and
117 then maintained and extended by Miquel van Smoorenburg
118 <miquels@cistron.nl>. Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> cleaned up the code
119 for inclusion in INN. This manual page was written by Mark Brown
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