RE: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews and Shell Script

["Jeff Grossman" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, after I sent the last message, I got to thinking, maybe you are
correct.  And then I saw your message, and said, let me try it out.  I just
logged in and did a fetchnews -Pvvvv, so I could see everything.  There was
nothing in out.going, I checked first.  It connected and disconnected from
each server that I have setup.  Now, if I go and setup a cron job to run
fetchnews -P every 30 minutes, there is going to be network traffic, which I
do not want.  But, if I create a shell script, to check and see if there are
articles first, then there will only be network traffic when I actually have
articles.

So, back to my original question, does anybody know how I could create this
shell script?  I want something easy and small.

Thanks,
Jeff

-----
Jeff Grossman (jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walt Mankowski [mailto:waltman@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 11:48 AM
> To: leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews and Shell Script
>
>
> Why do you think there will be any network traffic?  fetchnews -P
> shouldn't generate any network traffic unless there are articles in
> out.going that it needs to post.
>
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 11:22:47AM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> > 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
> > -----
> > 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
> > > >
> > > > -----
> > > > Jeff Grossman (jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> > > >
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