[leafnode-list] Re: fetchnews -P connects regardless

[Michael Mauch <michael.mauch@xxxxxx>]

Bob Firth schrieb:

> I am running leafnode 1.9.19 on RH6.2, with a dialup connection controlled
> by diald.  I have cron running the following script every hour:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -q &
> /usr/sbin/fetchnews -P &

> So I guess I'm requesting that fetchnews -P will exit immediately if
> there's nothing waiting to go out.  Is there some technical reason why
> this shouldn't be the case?

I don't know, but what about:

if [ $(ls /var/spool/news/out.going | wc -l) -gt 0 ] ; then
  /usr/sbin/fetchnews -P &
fi
 
Regards...
		Michael

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