send-uucp(8) [redhat man page]

SEND-UUCP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      SEND-UUCP(8)

NAME

       send-uucp, send-nntp, send-ihave - send Usenet articles to remote site

SYNOPSIS

       { send-nntp | send-uucp | send-ihave } [ -d ] sitename:hostname | sitename [ sitename:hostname | sitename ..  ]

DESCRIPTION

       The send-* utilities are scripts that process the batch files written by innd(8) to send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP or UUCP site.

       The sites to be fed may be specified by giving sitename hostname pairs on the command line.

       The sitename is the label the site has in the newsfeeds file, the hostname is the real hostname of the remote site, a FQDN (Fully Qualified
       Domain Name) in the case of an NNTP host, or the UUCP name in the case of a UUCP host.  Normally, the sitename and  the	hostname  are  the
       same, and as such don't have to be specified as sitename:hostname pairs but just as a sitename.

       send-uucp compresses batches of news and sends the to the remote site with uux.

       send-nntp Starts an innxmit to send the articles to the remote site.

       send-ihave  encapsulates  the articles in an ihave control message and uses inews to send the articles to a to.sitename pseudo-group. Using
       send-ihave is discouraged, nobody uses it anymore and even the author of this manpage is unsure as to how it  actually  works  or  used	to
       work.

       send-*  expect  that  the batchfile for a site is named <pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/sitename.  To prevent batchfile corruption, shlock(1) is
       used to ``lock'' these files.

OPTIONS

       -d     The ``-d'' flag causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather than the log file <pathlog in inn.conf>/<program-name>.log.

NOTES

       You should probably not use send-nntp, but innfeed, or if that is not possible, nntpsend.

       The usual flags in the newsfeed file to write a batch file suitable for processing by send-uucp are Tf,Wfb .

       The usual flags for a batch file for send-nntp are Tf,Wfm

SEE ALSO

       newsfeeds(5), nntpsend(8)

																      SEND-UUCP(8)

uucpsend(8)							Programmer's Manual						       uucpsend(8)

NAME

       uucpsend - Alternative frontend for uucp batching

SYNOPSYS

       uucpsend [ -c config ] [ -f appendix ] sitename [ sitename ... ]

       This  program  offers  a comfortable way to do news batching with the INN news system.  Like the name assumes it is used for sites that are
       connected via UUCP.  The idea behind the mechanism is taken from the nntpsend program which is already included in distributions of INN.

       The program does not do the batching itself.  Instead it lets commonly used tools do the work.  However it controls their behaviour.  Using
       uucpsend you can define detailed how batching for each site shall take place in an easy fashion.

       In the file uucpsend.ctl(5) for each site your server feeds you can specify the size of batches, the maximal disk space that may be used by
       the uucp site, the header that should be written in the batch (e.g. funbatch, cunbatch, gunbatch etc.), the compression program to  use	as
       well as additional arguments passed to uux(8).

       The  sitename should be the name of the site as specified in the newsfeeds(5) file.  If no sitenames are passed to the program it will loop
       over all sites that described in the configuration file.  This makes it easy to maintain sets of sites that are to be batched one after the
       other - contrary to batching through the whole day.

       A  batcher(8)  is launched for sites with queued news.  Output is sent to the file /var/log/news/uucpsend.log.  In order to keep from over-
       whelming the local system, uucpsend waits five seconds before the next site is fed.  Uucpsend expects that the  batchfile  for  a  site	is
       named /var/spool/news/out.going/sitename.  To prevent batchfile corruption, shlock(1) is used to ``lock'' these files.

       It is useful to have cron(8) invoke uucpsend.

       When  no  sites	are  given on the command line, any flags given on the command completely describe how batcher operate.  When no sites are
       given on the command line, then the information found in uucpsend.ctl becomes the default flags for that sites.

OPTIONS

       -f config
	      Using this parameter you are able to specify a file different to PATH_UUCPCTL which defaults to /etc/news/uucpsend.ctl.

       -f appendix
	      With the parameter ``-f'' you may specify another uucpsend.ctl(5) file.  Information with regard to also given  sitenames  are  read
	      from  the uucpsend.ctl-file.  Please keep in mind that all default values are still read from the main uucpsend.ctl file.  This fea-
	      ture has been added to let big sites easily specify a different batching behaviour.

HISTORY

       Written by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>, derived mostly from  nntpsend(8)	by  Landon  Curt  Noll	<chongo@toad.com>  and	Rich  $alz
       <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO

       innxmit(1), newsfeeds(5), uucpsend.ctl(5), nntppsend(8), nntppsend.ctl(5), shrinkfile(1).

Infodrom							 21 November 2001						       uucpsend(8)