Re: [leafnode-list] fetching news

[Rick Pasotto <rick@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:54:56PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Rick Pasotto <rick@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I am running leafnode 1.9.27 on debian.
> >
> > I have both 'noactive = 1' and 'nodesc = 1' set but everytime that I run
> > fetchnews it wastes a lot of time and bandwidth 'Getting all newsgroups
> > from ...'
> >
> > How can I alter this behavior?
> 
> Noactive avoids RE-downloading the file after "timeout_active" days, but
> it will not defeat downloading it for the first time.
> 
> Leafnode will need a newsgroup list, so you'll have to let the download
> complete at least once. If the download completes successfully and
> fetchnews redownloads the list next time you run it, then please try to
> obtain debug information, details are in the DEBUGGING section of the
> README file. (dpkg -L leafnode might show you where it is AFAIK, not
> using Debian).

I run fetchnews manually several times every day.

Here's my guess as to what's happening. I connect to two servers to help
make sure I don't miss any posts. The second server gives a 503 error
but not the first. Is the flag to download the newsgroup list global
instead of per server?

Here's my syslog file. Note the time lapse between the 'articles posted'
and the 'Reading server info' lines.

Jan 23 09:28:46 tc fetchnews[5990]: leafnode 1.9.27.rel: verbosity level is 3
Jan 23 09:28:47 tc fetchnews[5990]: connected to 216.166.71.230:119, reply: 200
Jan 23 09:28:48 tc fetchnews[5990]: news.speakeasy.net: 0 articles posted
Jan 23 09:30:06 tc fetchnews[5990]: Reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.speakeasy.net
Jan 23 09:30:06 tc fetchnews[5990]: triangle.general: considering articles 251325 - 251337 
Jan 23 09:30:17 tc fetchnews[5990]: triangle.general: 13 articles fetched (to 1945), 0 killed
Jan 23 09:30:17 tc fetchnews[5990]: connected to 66.150.105.46:119, reply: 200
Jan 23 09:30:18 tc fetchnews[5990]: free.teranews.com: 0 articles posted
Jan 23 09:30:54 tc fetchnews[5990]: Reading newsgroups descriptions failed: 503 LIST NEWSGROUPS not supported
Jan 23 09:30:54 tc fetchnews[5990]: Reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/free.teranews.com
Jan 23 09:30:55 tc fetchnews[5990]: triangle.general: considering articles 144048 - 144060 
Jan 23 09:30:55 tc fetchnews[5990]: triangle.general: 0 articles fetched (to 1945), 0 killed
Jan 23 09:30:57 tc fetchnews[5990]: wrote active file with 71429 lines

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    Rick Pasotto    rick@xxxxxxxx    http://www.niof.net

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