From: Arjan de Vet (devet@adv.win.tue.nl)
Date: 06/21/93


From: devet@adv.win.tue.nl (Arjan de Vet)
Subject: Re: more about INN...small problem:(
Date: 22 Jun 1993 00:13:23 +0200

According to Marc G Fournier <marcf@nexus.yorku.ca>:

> Quick problem...sending news batches to UUCP sites
>doesn't seem to work. If I run sendbatch -c <sitename>, it
>*seems* to process things, it wipes out /usr/spool/news/out.going/<sitename>
>and stops processing...but here is nothing in /usr/spool/uucp/<sitename>
>to go :(
>
> There are some jobs in the 'queue file', and sendbatch doesn't
>give any errors. There is no man pages that I can find, but lots of
>options seem to exist in the shell script *shrug*
>
> I'm running INN 1.4 under Linux pl10, with the patches that
>were posted a little while back to compile it under Linux. I can
>post news using inews, I can receive news from my feeds, as well as
>queue up news to go out again...it just won't batch :(

I (the one who made the patches) changed the line

        UUXFLAGS="- -r -gd"

in send-uucp to

        UUXFLAGS="- -r -z -gd"

Maybe you can change it in inn-1.4/site/send-uucp and `make install'.

I don't know whether Taylor UUCP understands the -z option, I'm using
another one.

Arjan