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- From: lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.uucp
- Subject: Re: Changing polling times
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.171755.420@hsh.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 21:17:55 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.170210.414@hsh.com> <1992Dec29.175816.1035@cmkrnl.com>
- Organization: HSH Associates
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1992Dec29.175816.1035@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- > In article <1992Dec29.170210.414@hsh.com>, lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann) writes:
- >> I changed the times in the systems. file to Any,1,1,15, and that seems to
- >> allow for immediate mail delivery (as mentioned in the manual :-),
- >> but is it set correctly to poll our feed every 15 minutes for news/mail?
- >
- > yes -- assuming that your sleeptime is no larger than 15 minutes.
-
- Everything is pretty much a vanilla installation, and the sleeptime is still
- 15 minutes
-
- >
- >> I guess I have to shorten the sleeptime if I want the news to get out faster
- >> also. Is this assumption correct?
- >
- > yes, but you also need to do something else: You need to change NEWSSKIM to
- > run more often.
- >
- > When someone on your machine
- > writes a news article, it gets put in a temporary file in news_manager_dev:[*].
- > (If it's to be fed to multiple sites, multiple files are created, one in each
- > directory under news_manager_dev:) NEWSSKIM periodically runs and picks these
- > up and turns them into compressed files in uucp_spool, together with the
- > "work file" (C file) which will cause uucp to transmit them.
- >
- > As shipped, NEWSSKIM runs once per hour. If you make it run more often you'll
- > also need to make some changes in its log file naming code.
-
- Hmmm... After wading through some of the code and seeing what is needed to
- shorten the time, I guess that once an hour is pretty acceptable to put news
- out :-)
-
- >
- > --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- > uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and
- > Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG
- > Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
- > Uucp: ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh
-
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-
- Lee Havemann, Comp Ops Dir. HSH Associates (201) 838-3330
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