[leafnode-list] Re: Empty groupinfo file

[Whiskers]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:48:20 -0400 "Jesse F. Hughes"
<jesse at phiwumbda.org>   wrote:
> 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

Hmmm.

> >> 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?

That's my impression.  Possibly a bug in that version of Leafnode?  (I now 
use Leadnode 2).

> Anyway, thanks much.  

Glad to be of use  :))

> 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.

By default the active list is re-created every 90 days; if you only have 
one upstream server configured, and that one has noactive set, then you 
end up with no active groups.

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