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Re: [leafnode-list] active.read not being created on 1.9.42



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Tim Daneliuk wrote:

| I have been running 1.9.22 on FreeBSD 4.x very nicely for some time.
| I just upgraded to 1.9.42.  Now, each time fetchnews runs, the entire
| list of groups is downloaded from each server in my config.  After
| digging around, I discovered that active.read is not being created,
| so fetchnews is effectively being run with the -f flag.  noactive=1
| seems to do nothing.
|
| Is this a known issue - any workarounds?
|
| TIA,
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| Tim Daneliuk     tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I discovered that manually creating this file solved the problem,
but it does still leave me with a couple of questions:

1) Why did noactive=1 not work, even without the file?
2) How is the file _supposed_ to be created?
3) Why not just use the date information on the 'groupinfo' file?

Thanks,
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Tim Daneliuk     tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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