Re: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews and Shell Script

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Why bother with all that?  Just set up a cron job to run fetchnews -P
periodically.  It will just exit if there's nothing in out.going.

Walt

On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:06:25AM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to create a shell script, which will look into out.going every
> so often and see if there are any contents, and if there are, to run
> fetchnews -P.  I am not very knowledgable with shell scripts, and not sure
> how I would go about seeing if there are any contents in out.going.  Could
> somebody help me?  I was thinking something like the following, but I think
> I am missing something:
> 
> cd /var/spool/news/out.going
> 	if == ? then fetchnews -P
> 	fi
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 
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