send-uucp(8)

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NAME

6       send-uucp - Send Usenet articles via UUCP
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SYNOPSIS

9       send-uucp [site ...]
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DESCRIPTION

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
14       control how it behaves with various sites.  Normally, it is run
15       periodically out of cron to put together batches and send them to
16       remote UUCP sites.
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18       It makes it possible to reduce bandwidth usage and to send news to
19       remote UUCP sites which cannot receive a real-time feed (for instance
20       if they are over dial-up connections).
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OPTIONS

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
26       sites listed in that configuration file.
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CONFIGURATION

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
31       site is specified with a line of the form:
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33           site[:host[:funnel]] [compressor [maxsize [batchtime]]]
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35       site
36           The news site name being configured.  This must match a site name
37           from newsfeeds(5).
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39       host
40           The UUCP host name to which batches should be sent for this site.
41           If omitted, the news site name will be used as the UUCP host name.
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43       funnel
44           In the case of a site configured as a funnel, send-uucp needs to
45           flush the channel (or exploder) being used as the target of the
46           funnel instead of flushing the site.  This is the way to tell send-
47           uucp the name of the channel or exploder to flush for this site.
48           If not specified, default to flushing the site.
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50       compressor
51           The compression method to use for batches.  This should be one of
52           "bzip2", "compress", "gzip" or "none".  Arguments for the
53           compression command may be specified by using "_" instead of
54           spaces.  For example, "gzip_-9".  The default value is "gzip".
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56       maxsize
57           The maximum size in bytes of a single batch before compression.
58           The default value is 500000 bytes.
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60       batchtime
61           A comma separated list of hours during which batches should be
62           generated for a given site.  When send-uucp runs, a site will only
63           be processed if the current hour matches one of the hours in
64           batchtime.  The default is no limitation on when to generate
65           batches.
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67       Fields are separated by spaces and only the site name needs to be
68       specified, with defaults being used for unspecified values.  If the
69       first character on a line is a hash sign ("#") then the rest of the
70       line is ignored.
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EXAMPLE

73       Here is an example for the send-uucp.cf configuration file:
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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
80           owl             compress        1048576
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82           pern::MYFUNNEL!
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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
86       remaining sites ("manhole" and "owl") use "compress".  The first six
87       use a batch size of 1 MB, and the two last sites ("able" and "pern")
88       use the default of 500,000 bytes.  The "zoetermeer", "hoofddorp",
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
91       will only have batches generated during those hours and 06:00, 20:00,
92       00:00, and 02:00.  There are no restrictions on when batches will be
93       generated for "owl", "able" and "pern".
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95       The "pern" site is configured as a funnel into "MYFUNNEL!".  send-uucp
96       will issue "ctlinnd flush MYFUNNEL!" instead of "ctlinnd flush pern".
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98       As for the newsfeeds file, the usual flags used for a UUCP feed are
99       "Tf,Wnb".  Here is a typical entry for "zoetermeer", where the batching
100       is kept between 4 KB and 1 KB:
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102           zoetermeer\
103               :*,!junk,!control,!control.*/!foo\
104               :Tf,Wnb,B4096/1024:
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FILES

107       pathbin/send-uucp
108           The Perl script itself used to create news batches from the
109           outgoing files.
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111       pathetc/send-uucp.cf
112           The configuration file which specifies a list of sites to be
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HISTORY

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
120       <broonie@sirena.org.uk>.
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