Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!rutgers!netsys!len
From: len@netsys.netsys.COM (Len Rose)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: inpaths
Message-ID: <16431@netsys.netsys.COM>
Date: 24 Sep 89 10:27:40 GMT
References: <1989Sep24.072129.17264@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: len@netsys.COM (Len Rose)
Organization: Netsys,Inc.
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Why go through all of that when you can do it far easier by
having a list of all articles placed in ~spool/batch/survey
and then just running a short shell script via cron..

I think it was Rich Salz who pointed this out some time ago.


~lib/news/sys

#######################################################################
# Brian's new survey
survey:\
	all,!local:F:/usr2/spool/batch/survey
#######################################################################


# Process Brian Reid's new path report
BATCHDIR=/usr2/spool/batch
INSPATH=/usr2/bin/inspath
SITE=netsys
WORK=survey.work
INPUT=survey
OUTPUT=/usr2/tmp/inspath.out
MAILER=/bin/mail
cd $BATCHDIR
/bin/touch $WORK
/bin/cat $INPUT >> $WORK
cp /dev/null $INPUT
$INSPATH $SITE <$WORK> $OUTPUT
$MAILER pathsurvey@decwrl.dec.com news < $OUTPUT
/bin/rm -f $WORK $OUTPUT