Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 383

USENET Installation and Maintenance
Files
All the files in
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u,r
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,pooll new. should be writable by the "news" user.
1.2. Format or the
sgs
File
To set up a link to another site (the two types of links are discussed below), you edit
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u,rl libl new'l '11'. SII' is similar to the UUCP L.'II' file. Each line 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 subscription.
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
'lI~name
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.jokea 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 contain-
ing the article in
I
u,r
I
'pooll 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 net-
work, even in the event of a local problem. Please make sure that a mail link exists too,
so 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 lu,r/'pooi/newl instead of a temporary customized file name.
(4) The command to be run to send news to the remote site. The article will be on the stan-
dard 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 -s 'lI,name!rnew8
Options here are:
Tells
uuz
to expect input on stdin.
-r
Tells
uuz
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 daemon is
started, usually the next time uueieo is invoked by eron.
-s Shuts off the annoying message you would otherwise get mailed to you telling you that
your artic Ie was successfully broadcast. The -s option is nonstandard; the remote sys-
tem may need to be modified to understand it. To avoid using
-s,
put the
uuz
com-
mand in the fourth field.
1 January
1984
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