Re: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews and Shell Script

[Roland Hofmann-Tikkanen <roland.hofmann-tikkanen@xxxxxxx>]

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.  
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 
Hallo,

when fetch(news) got the -P option, I added the following lines to my
script:

ls /var/spool/news/out.going/ > /tmp/postings
if [ -s /tmp/postings ]; then
   /usr/local/sbin/fetchnews -vvvv -n -P
fi

I am shure, there are better solutions, bat it's working for a long
time.

Roland

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