> Not to worry it stops fetching from groups you don't read - check your
> config settings - it's heavily commented.
Well, I can set the expiration date for what's needed - which is all
right. But I read that texpire(8) is thread-based rather than article-
based - what effect should that have (if any)? I'm used to having it
expire an article based on the file times.
> Set up texpire to uh delete articles after the desired number of days.
Already done - but if it's taking N days to pull down everything in
alt.binaries.*, texpire never gets to run, and the disk runs out of room. It's
been running for two days now and /var/spool/news (5 gig partition) is about
halfway full.
I thought I understood /etc/leafnode/filters, as it seems to be relatively
easy. I added a filter rule - '^Newsgroups:*[, ]alt.binaries*' to
filter out any binaries newsgroups, but it's being ignored, and running
applyfilter doesn't help, as it just spits out a 'no filter file' message.
Besides, if I understand leafnode correctly, it should not request news
groups which I did not ask for via reading the 'placeholder' article. That
is what happened the last time I set this up (perhaps six months ago or
so) - strange newsgroups just started appearing by themselves, such as
alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica :). Nothing in the documentation suggests
this should happen. The wierd thing is, before I was having hard disk
problems, it was running relatively smoothly, except for the odd
binaries groups. After resetting /var/spool, it's fetching *every-
thing* including all top level domains (uk,de,es,relcom,etc.)
> Well of course it's going to pull everything from your upstream spool,
> that's what news-servers do - you're basically running a full spool
I looked at slrnpull, and had some problems with it - for starters, it
inexplicably was only able to fetch a few articles (maybe 3-5) from the
newsgroups.
> locally and leafnode is a news-server. If you don't want the full
> features that leafnode provides, I really suggest you take a look at
I can live with the features - it's a lot easier to set up than inn, of
course. I've slogged news before (dialup UUCP via Cnews) and it's sure
nice to have DSL for this, and it's been on my personal to-do list once
I had DSL and enough disk space to commit.
> Did you install the rpm package? I really suggest you use the source
> package direct from the sourceforge site. Doing it this way one reads
I'll try that too. I did install the RPM. I'd hoped that the newer
leafnode would have fixed the previous problem - but it seems to have
made it worse.
> minor. What you should be doing is using cron to automate everything
> leafnode does including texpire.
That's already been set up - texpire is in cron.daily, and fetchnews is
in cron.hourly.
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