[plug] uucp polling question

Greg Mildenhall greg at networx.net.au
Wed Mar 31 10:52:10 WST 1999


On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Luigi Cantoni wrote:
> Polling of sites via uucp is usually accomplished via
> a script that is invoked by cron. This is not my problem.
> My problem arrises in that the scripts supplied with the
> system will only poll using one list at a time ie
> it will make a list of sites requiring to be polled and
> then tries to contact them. It will call up using different
> modems but what I need is to parallel process ie to use
> more then one modem at a time.

So make cron run several copies at once, each with a list containing only 
one site. Perhaps I do not understand the problem.

-Greg



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