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Unix shell script for accessing multiple NNTP servers
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Date: 
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 01:40:25 GMT
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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



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Unix shell script for accessing multiple NNTP servers
 
(...) Use slrn, which has support for multiple newservers. (26 years ago, 1-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Unix shell script for accessing multiple NNTP servers
 
Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote: I have a script like the one you included, but for some reason I can't remember, I decided to use different machines to read news from different NNTP hosts. I would at least keep both/all the site specific (...) (26 years ago, 1-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Unix shell script for accessing multiple NNTP servers
 
If one runs their own hobbyist Unix machine they might want to check out nntpcache ((URL) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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