Subj : nlupd
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Rick Smith
Date : Tue Dec 20 2022 06:47 am

Hello Wilfred!

Tuesday December 20 2022 09:46, you wrote to me:

 WV>  * Forwarded from area 'FIDOSOFT.HUSKY'
 WV> Hi Rick,

 WV> On 2022-12-19 22:03:16, you wrote to All:

 RS>> Im curious how everyone is updating nodelist on receipt of either
 RS>> a diff or weekly update, seems I have to do it manually?

 WV> No. But it's a bit of a "chain" to setup.

 WV> Whenever there are .tic files received by my mailer htick is run like
 WV> this:

 WV>   .../htick -c .../husky.config toss

 WV> In my husky.config I have the following lines:

 WV> 2 [...] ExecOnFile  NODEDIFZ  NODEDIFF.Z??  [basedir]/bin/nlupdate.sh

 WV> The nlupdate.sh script contains these lines:


I see the [...] are separators... lol

so the only part I see that confuses me a little is ;

 WV> 2 [...] ExecOnFile  NODEDIFZ  NODEDIFF.Z??  [basedir]/bin/nlupdate.sh

what is [basedir]? for nodelists? if the case you have a bin dir in yours? or is there meant to be a space there before running script?

Regards,

Rick

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