Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 111

System Set-Up and Operation
Sun 100/150 Installation Manual
2. Edit the lu,r/lib/new,I'1}' file, adding an entry for the site{s) you wish to connect to, and
an entry for your own site. S1}' is similar to the uucp L"1}' file: it lists all your neighbors,
which newsgroups they subscribe to, and describes how to send news to them. The format
of the
'1}'
file is as follows:
6-18
Each line of
'1}'
contains four fields; fields are separated by colons:
(1) The system name of a site to which you forward news. Normally, you should include a
line for all systems you have links to, as well a line for your own system.
(2) The newsgroups to be forwarded to them. This is a pattern in the sense of a subscrip-
tion. Generally, you will list classes of newsgroups, that is, using all for everything. A
typical forwarding list for a new site would be:
net.all,fa.all,to.sysname
where '1},ntJme is the name of your contact site. Note that you should not forward all,
in particular, since local newsgroups (those without dots) should not be sent. In the
line describing your own system, this field describes the newsgroups your site will
accept from contact sites. Thus, if another site insists on sending you a newsgroup you
don't want, say net.jokes, include !net.jokes here.
(3) Flags describing the connection between sites. These are:
A Indicates that the contact site is running an A version of netnews, or
B The contact site is running a B version. If neither A nor B is indicated here,
default is B. If you are running the latest release of Sun software, you have a B
version. If you aren't sure which version your contact site is running, ask them
before proceeding.
F Indicates that the fourth field is the name of a file. The full path name of a file
containing the article in / u,rl ,po
01/
new, will be appended to this file.
L Prevents transmission unless the article was created on this site. Feeding an L link
to a backbone site ensures that your submissions will be more likely to get to the
entire network, even in the event of a local problem. Please make sure that a mail
link exists too,
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you can get replies.
U Arranges that the parameter to the optional %s in the command field be filled in
with a permanent file name from
I
u,r
I
,pool/
n~w'
instead of a temporary custom-
ized file name.
(4) The command to be run to send news to the remote site. The article will be on the
standard input.
A
%s in the command will be replaced with the name of the file that
contains the article. Leaving this field blank means an ordinary uucp link is being
used; that is, the command defaults to:
uux - -r -z 'Y'ntJmeIrnews
Options here are:
Tells uuz to expect input on stdin.
-r Tells
UU%
not to start up a daemon right away. This eases the load on the system,
and makes news transmission only a bit slower. News is sent when the next dae-
mon is started, usually the next time uucico is invoked by cron.
-s Shuts off the annoying message you would otherwise get mailed to you telling you
that your article was successfully broadcast. The
-B
option is nonstandard; the
remote system may need to be modified to understand it. To avoid using -s, put
the uuz command in the fourth field.
Revision H of 12 March 1984