Re: [leafnode-list] Texpire and fetchnews

[krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel)]

Jeff wrote:

> just one minor maintenance problem, texpire will not run when fetchnews is.

That is intentional, because they both modify the same file
(/var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo) which may lead to locking problems
if they both write into the same file (or one writes the file while
the other reads it).

> if texpire is run more than once in a day will it expire stuff prematurely?
> or does it expire based on time of retrieval?

Expiry is based on the time of retrieval, not on the frequency of invoking
texpire.

> I would like this to run auto so I don't have to worry at all,

That's what I do as well. I use cron which works pretty fine for me.

> Btw what will fetchnews do if the spool area is filled?

It will most probably crash. I think its behaviour with respect to 
overwriting the groupinfo file (messing up its contents) has improved,
but I am not 100% sure.

--Cornelius.

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