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Re: Unix shell script for accessing multiple NNTP servers
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Date: 
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 22:29:38 GMT
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If one runs their own hobbyist Unix machine they might want to check out
nntpcache (http://www.nntpcache.org).  Its a proxy/cache system which also
works very well for merging multiple NNTP servers into one NNTP server.  If
there are multiple people reading from one machine (such as lugnet.com) then
it'll also keep the load on the main server (lugnet in this case) lower.

alex

Todd Lehman wrote in message <3612dc8b.7940027@lugnet.com>...

This (below) isn't the world's greatest sh script or anything but it's
something I just whipped together for reading these ng's via trn at
visi.com...  There are two main things the script has to do:

1) Maintain multiple copies of .newsrc
2) Set environment variable appropriately before launching trn


---------------------------begin file rnl------------------------------
#!/bin/sh

cd $HOME
mv .newsrc .newsrc-visi
mv .newsrc-lugnet .newsrc

NNTPSERVER=lugnet.com
NNTPPORT=119
export NNTPSERVER
export NNTPPORT

trn -x -X

mv .newsrc .newsrc-lugnet
mv .newsrc-visi .newsrc
----------------------------end file rnl-------------------------------


Anyone know a better, cleaner way to accomplish the same effect?  (For one
thing, the script above doesn't handle HUP signals and stuff like that.)

Looks like Pine has built-in support for handling multiple newsservers.

--Todd



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