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Re: [leafnode-list] changing news servers
>>>>> "Cornelius" == Cornelius Krasel <krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Cornelius> Bob Koss wrote:
>> >>>>> "Cornelius" == Cornelius Krasel
>> <krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
Cornelius> Hm. Leafnode does not store the article numbers of new
Cornelius> servers.
>> How does it know what to fetch?
Cornelius> I am afraid that I expressed myself in a wrong
Cornelius> way. Certainly Leafnode stores article numbers, but it
Cornelius> does so for each server separately (the numbers below
Cornelius> are those for news.newsfeeds.com). These are the
Cornelius> numbers of the first new article to fetch the next time
Cornelius> fetchnews is invoked.
It doesn't seem to be behaving that way. See below.
Cornelius> How does /var/spool/news/leaf.node/newsfeeds.com look
Cornelius> like?
>> [root@thinkpad leaf.node]# cat news.newsfeeds.com
>> comp.os.linux.misc 303004 alt.video.ptv.tivo 13101
>> comp.sys.palmtops.pilot 127047 alt.cellular.verizon 8944
>> comp.object 69509 comp.sys.laptops 185267 vmware.for-linux.misc
>> 0 comp.os.linux.networking 198608 rec.travel.air 184670
>> gnu.emacs.gnus 23914 comp.emacs.xemacs 34529
>> misc.consumers.house 109803 comp.lang.c++.moderated 53113
>> [root@thinkpad leaf.node]#
>>
>> What do these numbers represent? Should I set them all to 0 ?
Cornelius> You can do that, but this will probably also cause a
Cornelius> number of old articles to be fetched as well. It will
Cornelius> also result in leafnode being on-line for a long time.
I can live with a one-time duplication of old news. And I have a cable
modem so if it takes all day to fetch, I can live with that
also. These are minor pains compared to the grief that my old news
server was giving me.
Cornelius> It may be better to do a fetchnews run with the
Cornelius> -x parameter; i.e. do something like "fetchnews
Cornelius> [options of your choice] -x 1000".
Cornelius> If this still does not work, it may be necessary to
Cornelius> create a debug log.
That didn't work.
I tried setting the number on just one of the groups in
news.newsfeeds.com to 0 (misc.consumers.house). That didn't cause it
to fetch either. Here's the output:
[root@thinkpad sbin]# ./fetchnews -vvv
1.9.14: verbosity level is 3
Trying to connect to news.newsfeeds.com ... connected.
Getting new newsgroups from news.newsfeeds.com
Read server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.newsfeeds.com
comp.os.linux.misc: no new articles
alt.video.ptv.tivo: no new articles
comp.sys.palmtops.pilot: no new articles
alt.cellular.verizon: no new articles
comp.object: no new articles
comp.sys.laptops: no new articles
comp.os.linux.networking: no new articles
rec.travel.air: no new articles
gnu.emacs.gnus: no new articles
comp.emacs.xemacs: no new articles
skipping articles 0-107803 inclusive (article limit)
misc.consumers.house: considering articles 109784-109804
misc.consumers.house: will fetch 109804 (<oPaN6.14984$d26.178482@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
misc.consumers.house: receiving article 109804 (0 more up in the air)
storing <oPaN6.14984$d26.178482@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: misc.consumers.house
.as article 575 in misc.consumers.house
misc.consumers.house: 1 articles fetched, 0 killed
comp.lang.c++.moderated: considering articles 53129-53132
I also have a very hard time believing that there were no new articles
in comp.sys.palmtops.pilot. That's a very heavy group.
Thank you for your patience with this.
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