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In article <4026@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>,
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
> Why bother?  Geoff's rsh script is one very simple way of doing it
> provided that the destination userid is somehow secure and restricted.

rsh doesn't queue failed attempts.

> Another way is to simply set up UUCP to run over TCP.

That will probably be a good solution for most people.  But have you ever
used an entwork that was so congested, and whose packet round trip time
was so great, that uucp-over-tcp failed with complaints about "connection
timed out"?  The link between South Africa and the rest of the Internet
was like that for a long time.  ftp and rcp turned out to be among the
few things that could cope.

Here's how we set up a newsfeed over the slow link:

 o The sending site's news system pretends to be running over a vanilla
   UUCP link, so it generates compressed batches and feeds them to "uux
   -r - receiver!rnews".

 o The sending site's UUCP system is told never to call the receiving
   site.

 o The sending site runs a program called uucico.rcp from cron.
   uucico.rcp uses rcp to send the relevant D.* files to the receiving
   site, and just deletes the C.* files and the the irrelevant D.* files.

 o The receiving site runs a program from cron to pass the incoming D.*
   files to rnews.

I will be happy to give out copies of the relevant programs.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
RFC822: barrett@ee.und.ac.za                    Bang: m2xenix!undeed!barrett