feed a single hierarchy?

[Dave Williams]

"Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Jennifer Luisi wrote:
> 
> > I had a typo in my newsfeeds file so one of the downstream hosts wasn't
> > getting a particular hierarchy fed to them.  Is there a way to get just
> > these articles to that host?
> 
> To be honest, not an easy one.  INN isn't very good at feeding articles=20
> post-facto (the recipe http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#S6.4 is=20
> along the right lines, except that it will try to offer all articles).
> 
> Oh wait, an idea; you could use something like pullnews (in the INN=20
> distribution) or suck/newsx (third-party) to do this pretty easily.

Last time I had a pressing need to do something like this I used a
combination of script, newnews, grephistory, and a perl script to
knock together an innfeed batch file rather than taking everything
in the history file. Evil, but it worked reasonably well. 

Dave
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