Article View: news.software.b
Article #4834Re: Two-hop UUCP feed with C-news
From: Chris Lewis
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:48
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:48
18 lines
1402 bytes
1402 bytes
In article <1992Nov22.214026.14662@tigger.jvnc.net> aggarwal@tigger.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) writes: >Does anyone have a 'viaftp' sender ? I know that its easy to write, >but I guess handling of failed FTP's would require some thought, >and if someone's already done it, it would help. >There are a fair number of 'leaf' sites directly on the Internet that >would benefit a lot by using a uucp style transfer (using 'ftp') >instead of NNTP (even with the expected NNTP-2). Why bother? Geoff's rsh script is one very simple way of doing it provided that the destination userid is somehow secure and restricted. Another way is to simply set up UUCP to run over TCP. The nice thing about this is that queueing is taken care of for you. Why futz around with FTP? -- Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541 Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<4026@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!nott!cunews!revcan!ecicrl!clewisReferences:
<Bxo10M.G3I@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <Bxot8K.4w8@world.std.com> <1992Nov22.214026.14662@tigger.jvnc.net>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!nott!cunews!revcan!ecicrl!clewis From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Two-hop UUCP feed with C-news Message-ID: <4026@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> Date: 23 Nov 92 03:48:51 GMT References: <Bxo10M.G3I@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <Bxot8K.4w8@world.std.com> <1992Nov22.214026.14662@tigger.jvnc.net> Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 18