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[Stephen Hart]

Hi Paul, ...In a msg of <28 Dec 05>, Paul Henry wrote:

PH> <24 Dec 05>, Stephen Hart wrote to All:

SH>> I'm using Linux regularly, again, I'll try to make running the
SH>> gateway part of a regular routine.

PH> Just write a bash script and put it in your cron. It will happily gronk
PH> away until you tell it different. ;-)

Two things...

The gateway cannot be run automagically and still screen out UseNet
"spam and smut" to accepted FidoNet standards. I know this seems an
archaic attitude, but FidoNet message area standards still apply.

The real problem was my computer activities changing and my Linux
version becoming an antique, which combined to the point that I was
only booting to Linux to run the mailer and gateway.

So, a bash script in the cron config would not help. What surprises
me is how small an extra task can become "going out of one's way", tho
it usually worked out alright because I faithfully check for messages
that need "gating". Unfortunately, if I mess-up and then don't run
Linux for a while, then...



TTYL, ...Steve

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[snowzone]

and my Linux version becoming an antique,

that's the point where i was. i was sunning frankensuse 6.4 since it
came out. it was getting to be too much work to manually update
everything. i was also missing out the beneifts of "new" :) 2.6.x
kernels.

now that i'm running suse 10 maintenance is a lot easier...after i
copied over my dotrc files i was up to speed...