send-uucp - Send Usenet articles via UUCP

send-uucp [SITE ...]

The send-uucp program processes batch files written by innd(8) to send Usenet articles to UUCP sites. It reads a configuration file to control how it behaves with various sites. Normally, it's run periodically out of cron to put together batches and send them to remote UUCP sites.

Any arguments provided to the program are interpreted as a list of sites specfied in send-uucp.cf for which batches should be generated. If no arguments are supplied then batches will be generated for all sites listed in that configuration file.

The sites to which articles are to be sent must be configured in the configuration file send-uucp.cf. Each site is specified with a line of the form:

    site[:host] [compressor [maxsize [batchtime]]]

site

The news site name being configured. This must match a site name from newsfeeds(5).

host

The UUCP host name to which batches should be sent for this site. If omitted, the news site name will be used as the UUCP host name.

compressor

The compression method to use for batches. This should be one of compress, gzip or none. Arguments for the compression command may be specified by using CW_ instead of spaces. For example, CWgzip_-9. The default value is CWcompress.

maxsize

The maximum size of a single batch before compression. The default value is 500,000 bytes.

batchtime

A comma separated list of hours during which batches should be generated for a given site. When send-uucp runs, a site will only be processed if the current hour matches one of the hours in batchtime. The default is no limitation on when to generate batches.

Fields are seperated by spaces and only the site name needs to be specified, with defaults being used for unspecified values. If the first character on a line is a CW# then the rest of the line is ignored.

Here is an example send-uucp.cf configuration file:

    zoetermeer      gzip            1048576         5,18,22
    hoofddorp       gzip            1048576         5,18,22
    pa3ebv          gzip            1048576         5,18,22
    drinkel         gzip            1048576         5,6,18,20,22,0,2
    manhole         compress        1048576         5,18,22
    owl             compress        1048576
    able

This defines seven UUCP sites. The first four use gzip compression and the last three use compress. The first six use a batch size of 1MB, and the last site (able) uses the default of 500,000 bytes. The zoetermeer, hoofddorp, pa3ebv, and manhole sites will only have batches generated for them during the hours of 05:00, 18:00, and 22:00, and the drinkel site will only have batches generated during those hours and 20:00, 00:00, and 02:00. There are no restrictions on when batches will be generated for owl or able.

pathetc/send-uucp.cf

Configuration file specifying a list of sites to be processed.

The usual flags used for a UUCP feed in the newsfeeds file are CWTf,Wfb.

innd(8), newsfeeds(5), uucp(8)

This program was originally written by Edvard Tuinder <ed@elm.net> and then maintained and extended by Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>. Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> cleaned up the code for inclusion in INN. This manual page was written by Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>.