RE: [leafnode-list] Newbie Leafnode questions

[Shaun Campbell <Shaun.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That wouldn't be Outlook Express would it? That is what we are using to read
news?  Is there anyway to stop this behaviour as I'm rapidly running out of
disk space?

Thanks

Shaun

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Evans [mailto:tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 March 2001 18:02
To: leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [leafnode-list] Newbie Leafnode questions



>Then users tried to subscribe to some of the news groups on the remote
>server and no postings appeared. I then ran fetch again.  This ran for
about
>45 minutes and I began to get a bit suspicious/worried.  When I looked in
>/var/spool/news the fetch seemed to be downloading all postings for all
news
>groups, using about 500MB of disk space.  I thought it only downloaded
>postings for groups that were subscribed to.  Is this not the case or have
I
>not done something right in confgiuring the system?

It sounds as though one of your users is using a product which counts the 
articles in every group when they look at them, even if they don't actively 
'subscribe'.  That way, leafnode thinks that every group has become 
'interesting'.

Check out the interesting.groups file, that's the one it fetches articles 
against.


Tony Evans
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