Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: inpaths Message-ID: <1989Sep25.044131.23828@rpi.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 04:41:31 GMT References: <1989Sep24.072129.17264@rpi.edu> <16431@netsys.netsys.COM> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: len@netsys.netsys.COM's message of 24 Sep 89 10:27:40 GMT In <16431@netsys.netsys.COM> len@netsys.netsys.COM (Len Rose) writes: Len> Why go through all of that when you can do it far easier by Len> having a list of all articles placed in ~spool/batch/survey Len> and then just running a short shell script via cron.. "all of that"? Did you even _glance_ at what it was doing? Or the use of the word "simple" three or four times? "short shell script via cron"? That's all it is! "far easier"? The little script I provided didn't even require a sys file entry. What's more, inpaths run by it won't spend a lot of time getting back ENOENTs because of files which have been expired. Most sites don't keep news around for a whole month. I also hate having files, especially _huge_ files, sitting around when I don't need them. Over the course of one month by that method, batch/survey would grow to many, many megabytes. Now I'm not saying that anyone other than me should even bother using it, but please don't just throw phrases like that at what someone is trying to contribute without even seeing what they've done. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))