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From: jdiaz@hqsun1.oracle.UUCP (Jean Diaz)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Unjunking?
Message-ID: <179@turbo.oracle.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 88 04:47:42 GMT
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In article <1861@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>
>Okay, but how do I resubmit junk articles?

Here it is, courtesy of the only person who answered this question when I
had it six months ago.... (edited somewhat to reflect what I've learned
since then ).

				AMBAR

 >I have had to "rescue" articles from junk occasionally... here is what I
 >do.
 > 
 >1) Copy contents of junk directory to (say) /usr/spool/news/repost
 >
 >2) Run /usr/lib/news/expire -n junk -I -e 0 -E 0 [-v if you want to see
 >   what is going on...]
 >
 >   This removes all trace of the articles from the news history and allows
 >   you to repost them (otherwise you get "duplicate article errors).  Make
 >   sure you get the "-n junk" right or you will expire all the news on your
 >   machine.
 >
 >3) Now, remove your site name from the Path: line of each article.
 >   I do this on our bsd system with
 >
 >      apply "sed -f script < %1 | rnews" [0-9]*
 >
 >   where "script" contains the line "/^Path:/s/myhost!//"
 >
 >   [I tried passing the sed command as a command line arg to sed but
 >    couldn't get the quoting (particularly of the !) right]
 >
 >Duncan
 >
 >UUCP   : "...seismo!mnetor!utcs!utai!calgary!vuwcomp!duncan"
 >"You can always tell when politicians lie... their lips move!" - Max Headroom

				AMBAR