[leafnode-list] Re: Empty groupinfo file

[Jesse F. Hughes]

Whiskers <catwheezel at operamail.com> writes:

> 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.

Oh.  Then the comments in my config file are mistaken.  Here's what it
says:

## Disable the updating of the active file unless specifically requested
## in order to minimise network usage as much as possible.  The active
## file can be updated manually with the "-f" option to fetchnews.
# server = even.slower.example.com
# noactive = 1

>> 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 ... 

Removing the noactive line seems to do it.  I had just assumed that
noactive was a Boolean and that if setting it to 1 turns it on, then
setting it to 0 should turn it off.  Apparently I was wrong.  Maybe
leafnode just checks to see if noactive is defined, regardless of its
value?

Anyway, thanks much.  I guess that some simple screwup had killed my
active list (or groupinfo?) and that the noactive line prevented the
regeneration of the list.  Something like that.

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