RE: [leafnode-list] not retrieving messages

["Faine, Mark" <Mark.R.Faine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Faine, Mark" <Mark.R.Faine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Ok, I successfully compiled, installed and configured leafnode, 
> retrieved (or at least partially) retrieved a newrsc from multiple 
> hosts and configured two Usenet clients to connect and read messages.

There are known compatibility issues with "delaybody" which you seem to have
enabled in /etc/leafnode/config. Articles marked for download show up after
the next fetchnews run at the earliest. Some newsreaders may not show
delayed bodies.

> Outlook Express:
>
> I get a listing of new messages, if I click on one in the preview pane 
> I sees some text indicating that this message has been marked for 
> download. I don't however see the message.  I can't figure out how to 
> make the message display.

Outlook Express is a virus slingshot and violates pretty much any standard
and convention you can find, stay away from it if you can.

Yes, but if I'm on windows there is no more convenient and easier to use
newsreader available.  I'm a smart enough user to avoid the common security
problems inherit in OE and I have to say (flame me all you want) I like the
simplicity of it all.  It's not bad for a simple but very no-frills
newsreader.  I've been trying out forte agent and I have to say I like OE
better.  It's not as complicated to use (as forte agent) and displays
messages in  a more aesthetically pleasing manner.  


> I have tried changing delaybody but it doesn't seem to matter either 
> way.

Which leafnode version have you just installed?

The newest release for Gentoo Linux.  1.9.24
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/net-news/leafnode.xml

Did you run fetchnews after changing delaybody? (There may still be bugs.)  

Several times.  Each time a few more messages would be added to the list of
viewable but not all.



You may be able to recover by doing:

on the leafnode computer:
1. disable delaybody (i. e. set it to 0 in /etc/leafnode/config) 2. remove
all articles:
   find /var/spool/leafnode/ '!' -name '*.*' -mindepth 1 -type f -print \
   | xargs rm
3. run texpire -f
4. remove the files that name your servers from /var/spool/news/leaf.node 5.
run fetchnews -f

on the computer running the newsreader:

6. launch your newsreader, have it reread the group list and try again.
   reset the .newsrc file if necessary.

> Also, can fetchnews run in some sort of daemon mode or is cron the 
> only option besides manual invocation?


fetchnews or texpire have no such mode, because cron provides for the
necessary functionality. If you want to go without cron but run it two hours
after completion of the previous download, try:

/bin/sh -c 'while true ; do fetchnews ; sleep 7200 ; done'

Think I'll just use cron

An alternative to cron (that I haven't tried myself, so I don't recommend,
but only mention it) is uoschedule by Uwe Ohse, see
http://www.ohse.de/uwe/uschedule.html


Thanks for all your help.  I'll try this when I get home and post the
results. BTW, is there a newsgroup for leafnode, seems only logical?

-Mark

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