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- Moin, Hamburg, Wed, 10 Feb 1993 14:16:03 +0100
-
- congratulations for extracting a copy of ╗wCNews½ =:-> I hope the
- installation of this package will be a lot easier, at least compared to
- the alpha release of ╗wCNews½ ...
-
- Some hints on how to set up the stuff:
-
- 18.Perv:wail/CNews> list dist
- Directory "dist" on Friday 18-Dec-92
- notebook Dir ----rwed Yesterday 23:03:09
- news Dir ----rwed 18-Oct-92 03:44:18
- : SIMULATION of `UUNEWS:'
- doc Dir ----rwed Today 01:48:02
- man Dir ----rwed Today 01:47:54
- bin Dir ----rwed Today 01:47:59
- : The executables needed by Amiga CNews (move 'em into `uucp:c')
- lib Dir ----rwed Today 00:52:11
- : SIMULATION of `UULIB:'
- 6 directories - 6 blocks used
-
- The directories ╗notebook½, ╗doc½, and ╗man½ contain various manual
- pages; most documentation for the supplied programs are stored in ╗man½.
- Information on how (the original) CNews works internally can be found in
- ╗notebook½; ╗doc½ finally contains miscellaneous documentations.
-
-
- ╗news½ should be copied to ╗UUNEWS:½ (╗copy news uunews: all clone½);
- in ╗wCNews½, incoming news are stored in ╗UUNEWS:in.coming/½ by ╗rnews½
- and feed into ╗relaynews½ by executing ╗unbatch½, usually per dcron on a
- regular basis. Outgoing news are listed in ╗UUNEWS:out.going/site/togo½ --
- THUS FOR EACH site YOU INTEND TO SEND NEWS TO (i. e. almost every site
- that has an entry in UULIB:news/sys), YOU NEED TO CREATE A SUBDIRECTORY IN
- ╗UUNEWS:out.going/½ AS ╗relaynews½ WILL COMPLAIN OTHERWISE. Eventually, a
- later revision will include script to address this, but for now, it's up
- to you.
-
-
- The files in ╗lib½, especially the ╗lib/bin½ subdirectory, are
- expected to be moved to ╗UULIB:½. DO NOT, REPEAT NOT, SIMPLY ╗copy lib
- uulib: all clone½! ╗lib½ CONTAINS IMPORTANT CONFIGURATION FILES WHICH,
- WHEN SIMPLY COPIED, WILL OVERWRITE YOURS, WHICH USUALLY RESULTS IN *BIG*
- TROUBLE! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
- NOTE: You don't need to put ╗UULIB:news/bin½ into your search path; but
- ╗newscontrol½ and scripts for handling control messages HAVE TO reside
- there.
-
-
- Finally, the files in ╗bin½ are intended to go to ╗UUCP:c½ -- or to
- anywhere else as long as that place is in your global DOS search path.
- ╗relaynews½ and company EXPECT several programs residing somewhere along
- current DOS path, there is NO WAY to specify alternatives yet.
- NOTE: If you call ╗unbatch½ from your crontab, when starting ╗dcron½, the
- path ALREADY has to contain the place where you have stored the UUCP
- binaries (usually ╗UUCP:c/½) and also the ones of ╗wCNews½ (here:
- ╗UUCP:c½, too =:->).
-
-
- Regarding the files in ╗contrib½: I got several requests for this
- stuff, so I finally decided to include them with the `wCNews'
- distribution. See sample scripts for handling of (new|rm)group messages ...
-
-
- Please note that the included `uux' and `uuxqt' are still preliminary
- versions, based on 1.15 sources; they work for me, but you have been
- warned =:-> `uuxqt' checks the sending system in incoming uucp jobs with
- the L.sys-file, thus you NEED to add an entry for EVERY host that shall be
- allowed to send you jobs -- otherwise, the will be REJECTED.
-
-
- In case of problems feel free to drop me a note; hopefully, there
- will be a newsgroup ╗alt.sys.amiga.cnews½ be the end of 1992 ... I also
- monitor ╗alt.sys.amiga.uucp½ and the german groups
- ╗de.comp.sys.amiga.uucp½ and ╗amiga.uucp½, choose what ever is
- appropriate.
-
-
- I also included two scripts (in ╗bin½), ╗bugreport½ and
- ╗featurerequest½ which should be used for reporting bugs or asking for
- features, respectively. The are able to either email or post your message
- -- for email, use <bugs@hactar.hanse.de>, for posting, use one of the
- above groups.
-
- 18.Perv:wail/CNews> bugreport
- Usage: bugreport programm receipient_or_newsgroup [post]
- quit failed returncode 10
- 18.Perv:wail/CNews> featurerequest
- Usage: featurerequest programm receipient_or_newsgroup [post]
- quit failed returncode 10
-
- Please use ╗wCNews½ for ╗programm½, otherwise your report/request may be
- directed to the wrong place (I'm also developing a new sendmail and other
- stuff, thus specifying the program IS vital).
-
- The reason for using the scripts is: I monitor both the traffic to
- <bugs@hactar.hanse.de> and the newsgroups ╗alt.sys.amiga.cnews½, ╗alt.sys.-
- amiga.uucp½, ╗de.comp.sys.amiga.uucp½, and ╗amiga.uucp½ with my ╗BugReport½
- program which scans each mail/posting and, if it looks like a script-
- generated one, it is filed in a separate directory here, for later
- reference ...
-
-
- One final note: I have received at least three bug reports of
- ╗relaynews½ filing a new article locally but not transmitting it to
- neighbouring sites. I'm not sure whether this bug was introduced by me or
- already existed in the original sources -- only two of the three poeple
- complaining about this were running my enhanced version ...
- Until this bug has been found, please MAKE SURE that you specify a
- COMPLETE ╗ME:...½ line in ╗uulib:news/sys½, i. e. DO NOT USE
-
- # This is the sys file of wCNews ...
- ME:all/all
-
- but write
-
- # This is the sys file of wCNews ...
- ME:all/all:F:
-
- instead. Although the former syntax is expected to be correct, in all
- known cases the problems vanished after changing the `ME' line into the
- latter form ...
-
-
- Hope this was helpful to you ... If you want to send me something (be-
- cause this stuff works so great you never expected, for example =:->), feel
- free to do so =;->
-
-
- Amiga UUCP Plus USERS, NOTE: DO NOT, REPEAT NOT, RUN EXPIRE WITH YOUR
- OLD HISTORY FILE IN PLACE. AUUCP'S HISTORY IS OFF BY 8 YEARS -- YOU CAN
- IMAGINE WHAT THIS WOULD MEAN TO YOUR NEWSTREE, CAN'T YOU?
- Please do the following: ╗rename uulib:news/history uulib:news/tmphistory½,
- ╗fixauucphistory <uulib:news/tmphistory >uulib:news/history½ and finally
- run ╗doexpire½. DO THIS BEFORE RUNNING THE NEW ╗relaynews½ THE FIRST TIME!
-
-
- Thanks go to Frank 'Crash' Edwards (who did the original port),
- Walter Mildenberger, Ingo Feulner, Matthew Dillon -- and all I have
- forgotten.
- kai
-
- -- _
- _ // Kai 'wusel' Siering, Villa Straylight, Hamburg, Germany. Go for MIME!
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