NAME

       uucpsend - Alternative frontend for uucp batching

SYNOPSYS

       uucpsend [ -c config ] [ -f appendix ] sitename [ sitename ... ]

       This  program  offers  a  comfortable  way  to  do news batching with the INN news system.  Like the name
       assumes it is used for sites that are connected via UUCP.  The idea behind the mechanism  is  taken  from
       the nntpsend program which is already included in distributions of INN.

       The  program  does not do the batching itself.  Instead it lets commonly used tools do the work.  However
       it controls their behaviour.  Using uucpsend you can define detailed how batching  for  each  site  shall
       take place in an easy fashion.

       In  the  file  uucpsend.ctl(5)  for  each site your server feeds you can specify the size of batches, the
       maximal disk space that may be used by the uucp site, the header that should  be  written  in  the  batch
       (e.g.  funbatch, cunbatch, gunbatch etc.), the compression program to use as well as additional arguments
       passed to uux(8).

       The sitename should be the name of the site as specified in the newsfeeds(5) file.  If no  sitenames  are
       passed  to  the program it will loop over all sites that described in the configuration file.  This makes
       it easy to maintain sets of sites that are to be batched one after  the  other  -  contrary  to  batching
       through the whole day.

       A   batcher(8)   is   launched   for   sites   with   queued   news.    Output   is   sent  to  the  file
       /var/log/news/uucpsend.log.  In order to keep from overwhelming the local  system,  uucpsend  waits  five
       seconds  before  the  next  site  is  fed.   Uucpsend  expects  that  the  batchfile  for a site is named
       /var/spool/news/out.going/sitename.  To prevent batchfile corruption, shlock(1) is used to ``lock'' these
       files.

       It is useful to have cron(8) invoke uucpsend.

       When  no  sites  are  given  on  the command line, any flags given on the command completely describe how
       batcher operate.  When no sites are given on the command line, then the information found in uucpsend.ctl
       becomes the default flags for that sites.

OPTIONS

       -f config
              Using  this  parameter  you are able to specify a file different to PATH_UUCPCTL which defaults to
              /etc/news/uucpsend.ctl.

       -f appendix
              With the parameter ``-f'' you may specify another uucpsend.ctl(5) file.  Information  with  regard
              to also given sitenames are read from the uucpsend.ctl-file.  Please keep in mind that all default
              values are still read from the main uucpsend.ctl file.  This feature has been  added  to  let  big
              sites easily specify a different batching behaviour.

HISTORY

       Written  by  Martin  Schulze  <joey@infodrom.org>,  derived  mostly  from nntpsend(8) by Landon Curt Noll
       <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO

       innxmit(1), newsfeeds(5), uucpsend.ctl(5), nntppsend(8), nntppsend.ctl(5), shrinkfile(1).