Re: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews and Shell Script

["Jeff Grossman" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do not want network traffic if it is not needed.  I would prefer to check
and see if there are any contents before I create any unnecessary network
traffic.

Jeff
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Jeff Grossman (jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Mankowski" <waltman@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews and Shell Script


> 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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> > Jeff Grossman (jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> >
> >
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