Hello Paul,

On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 19:30:46 +1000, Paul Quinn -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 PQ> There does appear to be netmail.jam support.  I use it here and on my
 PQ> main system, with scripts & BATches.

Does it place the proper netmail information in the specied "echomailjam"
parameter so there is only one file to contend with? The JamNNTPd configuration
file doesn't seem to mention a separate file for netmail.jam. Or does it
actually create a netmail.jam separately?

 PQ> OTOH, my Linux script uses a fall-through approach when looking for
 PQ> those semaphores/data files; that is to say that it attempts using named
 PQ> *.jam files as arguments, and if none are found it does a mass scan out
 PQ> in any case.

In my adventures, I'm trying to avoid that. With my Golded/hpt setup, I have
hpt creating echotoss.log and Golded creating echoscan.log. Then in my script I
use "hpt scan -f" which looks for one of those files, and if not found, it
doesn't continue to run. I'm running it all on a Raspberry Pi3 so while I
tinker I'm also looking for ways to save resources wherever possible (not that
it's a huge deal or anything).

So with JamNNTPd, I would like to do something similar with the .jam files.
More likely writing a wrapper script that runs my newsreader client (slrn), and
then when I actually exit the program will continue to do a search for those
.jam files and run my tosser if they're found. That way I don't have to run a
script with cron or anything that most of the time wouldn't even do anything
when no messages are posted from here. And the need to scan all areas when
those files are not found wouldn't be necessary either.

Thanks for the info, Paul!

Regards,
Nick

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