Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!leah!bingvaxu!sunybcs!oswego!ostroff From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Need help with BATCH for B news 2.11 Keywords: #define BATCH Message-ID: <831@oswego.Oswego.EDU> Date: 25 Jun 88 17:37:34 GMT Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.UUCP (Boyd Ostroff) Distribution: na Organization: SUNY Oswego Lines: 31 (-: Please forgive me if these are dumb questions, but this is my first setup of the USENET news software :-) I've got everything compiled on my 3B1 and the USENET and RN software seems to work fine locally, so my next step is to set up a newsfeed. In reading the docs I'm puzzled by Appendix A (Setting up a Compressed, Batched Newsfeed). It says "First, BATCH must have been #define'd when you built the source directory. BATCH should be defined as a program name (by default, unbatch)." Well, I've grepped through all the def.*, localize.* and *.c files and don't see ANY reference to BATCH. Does it really need to be #define'd? All of the other #defines that I'm not using have been /* commented out */, but BATCH just doesn't seem to be there at all. If I just want to use the default "unbatch" program, do I need to define BATCH, or will adding the the "F" flag to the third field in my newsfeed's sys entry take care of everything? Also, appendix A says to add a line to your crontab which runs *hourly* saying "sendbatch -c frobozz". My newsfeed is a long distance call, so I really don't want to call it hourly. Does "sendbatch" just spool news for regualar UUCP transfers, or does it initiate a call? Why should it be run hourly instead of once a day? Any help will be greatly appreciated! Any other suggestions/tips for sending batched, compressed news would be most welcome. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: Boyd Ostroff, Technical Director :: System Operator, "The CallBoard" :: Department of Theatre, SUNY Oswego :: - Serving the performing arts - :: Internet: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU :: (315) 947-6414, 300/1200 baud, 8N1 :: Voice: (315) 341-2138 :: UUCP ...sunybcs!oswego!cboard!ostroff :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::