[leafnode-list] Re: Filling the gap.

[Thufir]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:

> From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: Filling the gap.
> Newsgroups: gmane.network.leafnode
> 
> Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Globally, I don't want to set maxfetch in order to, as default behavior,
>> prevent gaps.  However, for a small number of groups I don't want this
>> default behavior, for those groups I _do_ want to set maxfetch.
>
>> What I want is to set maxfetch for very.crowded.group _only_ and not for
>> any other groups.  Is this possible?
>
> Not at this time. However setting this to some large value will cut off
> "too much" of "very-crowded" groups, but since low-traffic groups will
> have fewer posts, they won't usually reach that limit.
>
> (It might be useful to set a posting rate that depends on when the last
> successful fetch from that group was, but there is no code yet in place
> to keep track which group was completed when, so it's nontrivial.)
>
>


from the fetchnews man page:


ENVIRONMENT
        LN_SKIP_GROUPS=pattern[,pattern[...]]    (since
        v1.9.53)
               If set, all groups that match one of the
               wildmat(3) patterns will be skipped dur-
               ing the fetch. This can  be  used  as  a
               quick way of skipping binary groups dur-
               ing daytime, for instance, example:

               env      ’LN_SKIP_GROUPS=*binary*,alt.*’
               /usr/sbin/fetchnews -nq



Could I get a concrete example of how this is done, please?



thanks,

Thufir