[leafnode-list] Re: Empty groupinfo file

[Whiskers]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:31:16 -0400 "Jesse F. Hughes"
<jesse at phiwumbda.org>   wrote:
> Whiskers <catwheezel at operamail.com> writes:
> 
> > Have you got 
> >
> >        noactive = 1
> >
> > in your configuration for that server?
> 
> D'oh!
> 
> But I was using "fetchnews -f".  Shouldn't that override the noactive
> line in the config file?

I don't think so.

> Also, I changed the noactive to 0.  Here's the resulting output.

[...]

> As you can see, I still have 
> 
>   news.rcn.com: not attempting to update newsgroups list
> 
> in the output.  
> 
> What am I missing?  Thanks again.

Try removing the 'noactive' line entirely.  'noread' will also prevent the 
active list from being updated - but as you seem to be trying to read from 
that server, I guessed that you didn't have that line ... 

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