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Re: [leafnode-list] Multiple NNTPHOST sources
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Mike Graham wrote:
> [...] Actually, I'd like to be able to run fetchnews as a regular user
> (it's getting annoying to have to su just to run it, and I need to run
> it manually because I have dial-up access thanks to my rather remote
> location).
Back when I was in in a similar situatuation, I put simply put a call to
fetchnews in my ppp up script and a call to fetchnews -P in my down
script.
Later I set up a cron job (owned by news) which runs a script
/etc/leafnode/cronrun
which looks like
#!/bin/sh
[ -f /var/lock/subsys/fetchnews ] && /usr/local/sbin/fetchnews
The file /var/lock/subsys/fetchnews can be touched/created by something in
ppp-up and removed by something in ppp-down.
> Neither server will allow me to
> access until I'm dialed into their machine directly. I have both
> servers in with username and password, but it only actually *works* for
> whichever service I'm dialed into at the time.
That sucks. Well in that case you will have to call fetchnews with a
different configuration file upon dial-up. Again, you can have little
scripts run at dial-up and and "dial-down" time.
-j
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