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 con‐
14 trol how it behaves with various sites. Normally, it's run periodi‐
15 cally out of cron to put together batches and send them to remote UUCP
16 sites.
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19 Any arguments provided to the program are interpreted as a list of
20 sites specfied in send-uucp.cf for which batches should be generated.
21 If no arguments are supplied then batches will be generated for all
22 sites listed in that configuration file.
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25 The sites to which articles are to be sent must be configured in the
26 configuration file send-uucp.cf. Each site is specified with a line of
27 the form:
28 site[:host] [compressor [maxsize [batchtime]]]
30 site
32 The news site name being configured. This must match a site name
33 from newsfeeds(5).
34 host
36 The UUCP host name to which batches should be sent for this site.
37 If omitted, the news site name will be used as the UUCP host name.
38 compressor
40 The compression method to use for batches. This should be one of
41 compress, gzip or none. Arguments for the compression command may
42 be specified by using "_" instead of spaces. For example,
43 "gzip_-9". The default value is "compress".
44 maxsize
46 The maximum size of a single batch before compression. The default
47 value is 500,000 bytes.
48 batchtime
50 A comma separated list of hours during which batches should be gen‐
51 erated for a given site. When send-uucp runs, a site will only be
52 processed if the current hour matches one of the hours in
53 batchtime. The default is no limitation on when to generate
54 batches.
55 Fields are seperated by spaces and only the site name needs to be spec‐
57 ified, with defaults being used for unspecified values. If the first
58 character on a line is a "#" then the rest of the line is ignored.
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61 Here is an example send-uucp.cf configuration file:
62 zoetermeer gzip 1048576 5,18,22
64 hoofddorp gzip 1048576 5,18,22
65 pa3ebv gzip 1048576 5,18,22
66 drinkel gzip 1048576 5,6,18,20,22,0,2
67 manhole compress 1048576 5,18,22
68 owl compress 1048576
69 able
70 This defines seven UUCP sites. The first four use gzip compression and
72 the last three use compress. The first six use a batch size of 1MB,
73 and the last site (able) uses the default of 500,000 bytes. The
74 zoetermeer, hoofddorp, pa3ebv, and manhole sites will only have batches
75 generated for them during the hours of 05:00, 18:00, and 22:00, and the
76 drinkel site will only have batches generated during those hours and
77 20:00, 00:00, and 02:00. There are no restrictions on when batches
78 will be generated for owl or able.
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81 pathetc/send-uucp.cf
82 Configuration file specifying a list of sites to be processed.
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85 The usual flags used for a UUCP feed in the newsfeeds file are
86 "Tf,Wfb".
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89 innd(8), newsfeeds(5), uucp(8)
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92 This program was originally written by Edvard Tuinder <ed@elm.net> and
93 then maintained and extended by Miquel van Smoorenburg
94 <miquels@cistron.nl>. Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> cleaned up the code
95 for inclusion in INN. This manual page was written by Mark Brown
96 <broonie@sirena.org.uk>.
97INN 2.4.0 2003-05-04 SEND-UUCP(8)