From: Marc G Fournier (marcf@nexus.yorku.ca)
Date: 06/23/93


From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: more about INN...small problem:(
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 00:17:58 GMT

devet@adv.win.tue.nl (Arjan de Vet) writes:

>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.

        Taylor doesn't use the -z option, I don't think, but it doesn't
give an error on it either :( another idea? :)

thanks...

marc