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From: ladm@kitc.UUCP (John Burgess - Local tools ADM)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: limiting news to certain hours of the day?
Message-ID: <148@kitc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 16:38:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: kitc.148
Posted: Wed Jul 24 16:38:49 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 02:49:58 EDT
References: <726@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: ladm@kitc.UUCP (John Burgess - Local tools ADM)
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Summary: use cron!
In article <726@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>Our system is heavily loaded during office hours and can't
>handle the additional load of uuxqt/cunbatch/news-unpack/rnews
...
>thing, has anyone done it already? Is there any other obvious
>solution which will permit mail to work but gracefully prevent
>news from running during the day?
>
>Dave Sherman
Yes, have your sender ONLY batch the news to you in off hours.
Try smething like this as your cron entry:
30 0-7,17-23 * * * //sendbatch ...
We stick an extra ",12," to pick up news during lunch.
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John Burgess - Local Tools Administrator
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