Re: [leafnode-list] newsfetch and texpire problems

["Chloe Lewis" <eir@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks Krasel. now leafnode is working good. :-)

--
War doesnt determine whos right, just whos left.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cornelius Krasel" <krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 6:13 AM
Subject: Re: [leafnode-list] newsfetch and texpire problems


> Chloe Lewis wrote:
> > i ve newly installed leafnode-1.9.18 and met some configuration
> > problems. when i excute fetchnews for the first time, it gets more
than
> > the quantity of news spool storage which is about 1G,
>
> This obviously depends on the amount of groups you chose to read.
Check
> /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ and remove the ones which you
don't
> want to read.
>
> > (it retrieves *too old* articles from the news feeding server.)
>
> Set "maxage" in the config file to a suitable number (default is 10
> days). You also might want to play with the "initialfetch" parameter
> which determines the number of postings that is being retrieved from
> the upstream server when a group is read for the first time.
>
> > are the articles older than the expiration time eliminated from the
day
> > they are stored in spool directory ?
>
> Yes.
>
> > i want to keep the last-3-days articles. any single clue to solve
the
> > problems will be greatly appreciated.
>
> expire = 3
>
> If you don't care for threading, run "texpire -f" from your cronjob
> instead of "texpire". This will delete a lot of additional articles.
>
> HTH,
> --Cornelius.
>
> --
> /* Cornelius Krasel, U Wuerzburg, Dept. of Pharmacology, Versbacher
Str. 9 */
> /* D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany   email:
krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx */
> /* "Science is the game we play with God to find out what His rules
are."  */
>
> --
> leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- mailing list for
leafnode
> To unsubscribe, send mail with "unsubscribe" in the subject to the
list
>
>


-- 
leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- mailing list for leafnode
To unsubscribe, send mail with "unsubscribe" in the subject to the list