Re: [leafnode-list] Leafnode and Pan

[Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In addition, I have just traced another article through the whole cycle - 
read, close and reopen knode then read again, with tail -f on the debug log.  
There is no mention of deleting the article.  Something else must be doing 
it.  What newsreaders are others using?

Doug.

On Tuesday 26 March 2002 9:30 am, you wrote:
> My version of Pan is 0.11.2.90 - the latest available as a Mandrake RPM.
>
> I got more drastic,deleted the entire news spool and started again with
> Knode.  The log entries when I try to read an article a second time after
> opening Knode again are:
>
> In news.notice:
>
> Mar 26 09:09:02 dougshost leafnode[3054]: >205 Always happy to serve!
> Mar 26 09:11:36 dougshost leafnode[3063]: config: debugmode is 1
> Mar 26 09:11:36 dougshost leafnode[3063]: config: initialfetch is 200
> Mar 26 09:11:36 dougshost leafnode[3063]: config: delaybody is 1 (default
> 0) Mar 26 09:11:36 dougshost leafnode[3063]: rereading
> /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo
> Mar 26 09:11:38 dougshost leafnode[3063]: >200 Leafnode 1.9.20.rc6, pleased
> to meet you!
> Mar 26 09:11:38 dougshost leafnode[3063]: >211 119 1 119
> soc.genealogy.australia+nz group selected
> Mar 26 09:11:44 dougshost leafnode[3063]: soc.genealogy.australia+nz: first
> 1 last 119 artno 52
> Mar 26 09:11:44 dougshost leafnode[3063]: >430 No such article: 52
> Mar 26 09:11:49 dougshost leafnode[3063]: >205 Always happy to serve!
> [root@dougshost news]#
>
> There is also a logfile news.err, but it contains nothing - only the
> entries when I tried fetchnews without creating /message.id first.
>
> Doug.
>
> On Monday 25 March 2002 8:27 pm, you wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> > > Panic!!
> > >
> > > I don't know what I did, but using Pan as my newsreader, I somehow
> > > marked every article body on the server for download in delaybody mode.
> > >  The Pan website tells me that the instruction manual will be ready
> > > next week.
> >
> > Wee. What Pan version have you been using?
> >
> > As a band-aid workaround, you can clear the download list for a certain
> > group as follows:
> >
> > 1. become root
> > 2. cd /var/spool/news/interesting.groups
> > 3. cp /dev/null some.news.group
> >
> > That will prevent the download of bodies for some.news.group, but still
> > download headers for the group on the next run.
> >
> > If you want to clear all of the body download lists, do:
> > (with bash, ksh, ash, but not csh/tcsh):
> >
> > 1. become root
> > 2. for i in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/* ; do cp /dev/null $i ;
> > done

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