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Archive-name: auto/news.software.b/Announcing-sendbatches-for-InterNetNews

Sendbatches for INN is a small package whose goal is to furnish
an interface similar to the powerful sendbatches which is part
of the C-News distribution.

The sendbatches for INN also uses one configuration file
where the user can specify several parameters such as the muncher and
sender to be used as well as batch size limits.

The archive is available via anonymous ftp to grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr,
as /pub/unix/news/inn/contrib/sendbatches.tar.Z.

README file follows:

This package is an attempt to furnish a "sendbatches" for INN with similar
behavior than its C-News version.

----------  IMPORTANT  ----------

To unpack this tar archive, you should be in $inn (see INN's
Install.ms file if you don't know what $inn means) when doing
the tar xvf command.

The files will be put in $inn/contrib/sendbatches and the Makefile
assumes it really is there.

Rich Salz has agreed not to use the $inn/contrib for official stuff,
so what you'll find in this sub-directory is not part of the official
release of INN.

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This version as well as its extensions will be made available via
anonymous ftp to grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr, in the directory
/pub/unix/news/inn/contrib/sendbatches.tar.Z

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How to install sendbatches for INN.

- Edit and customize sendbatches.ctl, add one line for each site you
  feed batches to.

  Field 1:  site name (from the newsfeeds file)
  Field 2:  maximum # of batches (calls to batcher) per call
  Field 3:  size of batch (passed to batcher)
  Field 4:  muncher (in the batch sub-dir)
  Field 5:  sender (in batch) with its (few) arguments).

  Tabulation between each field.

- Change, delete and add whatever you need in the batch sub-dir.

- Run "make" to get sendbatches subst'ed (C version of subst only).

- Give an eye to the script if you wish.

- Check the install part of the Makefile in order to be sure none of
  your custom will be destroyed.

- Run "make install" with appropriate priviledge.

Update your crontab entries in order to run the script.

Example: 

0 * * * * /usr/local/news/bin/sendbatches site1 site2 there foo bar

ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY WITH THIS SOFTWARE.

Comments, questions to Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr.


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