[leafnode-list] Setting fetchnews to only fetch, or only post, news.

uni-dortmund at asktoby.com uni-dortmund at asktoby.com
Wed Jan 24 14:58:59 CET 2007


Is it possible to set fetchnews to only fetch, or only post, news?

At the moment, my root user has this cronjob:
*\10 * * * * /usr/sbin/fetchnews -f >> /var/log/crontablog 2>&1

and what I'd love would be something like:
*\10 * * * * /usr/sbin/fetchnews -fetch >> /var/log/crontablog 2>&1
*\15 * * * * /usr/sbin/fetchnews -post >> /var/log/crontablog 2>&1
...where the -f and -p denote fetch only and post only.

This would allow news to be fetched on one schedule but posted on a
different schedule.
There doesn't seem to be provision for this in the fetchnews manpage.

Any possibility of this?
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