Ubuntu Manpage: send-uucp - Send Usenet articles via UUCP

NAME

       send-uucp - Send Usenet articles via UUCP

SYNOPSIS

       send-uucp [site ...]

DESCRIPTION

       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 is run
       periodically out of cron to put together batches and send them to remote UUCP sites.

       It makes it possible to reduce bandwidth usage and to send news to remote UUCP sites which cannot receive
       a real-time feed (for instance if they are over dial-up connections).

OPTIONS

       Any arguments provided to the program are interpreted as a list of sites specified 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.

CONFIGURATION

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

site[:host[:funnel]] [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.

funnel
In the case of a site configured as a funnel, send-uucp needs to flush the channel (or exploder)
being used as the target of the funnel instead of flushing the site. This is the way to tell send-
uucp the name of the channel or exploder to flush for this site. If not specified, default to
flushing the site.

compressor
The compression method to use for batches. This should be one of "bzip2", "compress", "gzip" or
"none". Arguments for the compression command may be specified by using "_" instead of spaces. For
example, "gzip_-9". The default value is "gzip".

maxsize
The maximum size in bytes of a single batch before compression. The default value is 500000 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 separated 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 hash sign ("#") then the rest of the line is
ignored.

EXAMPLE

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

           zoetermeer      gzip            1048576         5,18,22
           hoofddorp       gzip            1048576         5,18,22
           pa3ebv          gzip            1048576         5,18,22
           drinkel         bzip2           1048576         5,6,18,20,22,0,2
           manhole         compress        1048576         5,18,22
           owl             compress        1048576
           able
           pern::MYFUNNEL!

       This defines eight UUCP sites.  The first three and the last two use "gzip" compression, the fourth  site
       ("drinkel") uses "bzip2" and the remaining sites ("manhole" and "owl") use "compress".  The first six use
       a  batch  size of 1 MB, and the two last sites ("able" and "pern") use 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  06:00,  20:00,  00:00,  and  02:00.  There are no restrictions on when batches will be
       generated for "owl", "able" and "pern".

       The "pern" site is configured as  a  funnel  into  "MYFUNNEL!".   send-uucp  will  issue  "ctlinnd  flush
       MYFUNNEL!" instead of "ctlinnd flush pern".

       As  for  the  newsfeeds file, the usual flags used for a UUCP feed are "Tf,Wnb".  Here is a typical entry
       for "zoetermeer", where the batching is kept between 4 KB and 1 KB:

           zoetermeer\
               :*,!junk,!control,!control.*/!foo\
               :Tf,Wnb,B4096/1024:

FILES

       pathbin/send-uucp
           The Perl script itself used to create news batches from the outgoing files.

       pathetc/send-uucp.cf
           The configuration file which specifies a list of sites to be processed.

HISTORY

       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>.