Re: inews path question
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:26:48PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:17:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> || What program should a user use to post a message from the command-line,
> || then? I've always used inews for this, and I think it's quite reasonable
> || for users to do so.
>
> There used to be Pnews for this, a shell script IIRC.
Pnews isn't designed for non-interactive use, such as a news posting
from a cron job. Running it non-interactively would be a very tedious
affair involving lots of environment variables and expect scripting.
(I maintain trn4, which is one of the packages containing Pnews. :))
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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