Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!pbox!romed!cseg!dws From: dws@cseg.UUCP (David W. Summers) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: news forwarding Message-ID: <272@cseg.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 20:24:32 EST Article-I.D.: cseg.272 Posted: Wed Nov 25 20:24:32 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 00:18:27 EST References: <2054@dasys1.UUCP> Organization: Computer Science Engineering Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Lines: 29 Keywords: news,forwarding Summary: Yes. I'm doing it! Xref: mnetor news.software.b:986 news.admin:1441 news.sysadmin:502 In article <2054@dasys1.UUCP>, samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes: > Is it possible to have a system (with limited disk space) receive a full > news feed in compressed/batched format, and then simply pass it on to > another system (with lots of disk space), without unbatching it and posting > it locally? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Dominick Samperi, Manhattan College, New York, NY > ...!ihnp4!cmcl2!manhat!samperi > ...!ihnp4!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!samperi Yes, That's what I'm doing here! I receive news nightly on my machine, but since I have a lowly 20 Megs of disk space there is no way I could run news on my machine. What I did was to create a shell script called 'rnews' which turns right around and forwards the news on to the big system that I feed. An example which feeds two other machines (more general purpose than just one) is as follows: #This routine intercepts NetNews batches and mails them to uafuts!smods #and cseg!netnews tee temp | uux - -r cseg\!rnews cat temp | uux - -r uafuts\!/sysdevl/smods/usenet/bin/rnews rm temp This is the easiest way that I found to do it...There might be better ways. - David Summers ..!rutgers!pbox!romed!actsn!david ..!rutgers!pbox!romed!actsn!cseg!dws