[leafnode-list] Re: Empty groupinfo file

[Matthias Andree]

Jesse F. Hughes schrieb am 2008-08-07:

> 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:

I just checked for the current 1.11.X version in CVS, and you're right -
the behaviour contradicts documentation. I'll fix this for 1.11.7.

> > 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?

It is a boolean, but I haven't checked if there were fixes between your
version and 1.11.6.

> 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.

Seems likely.

Best regards and thanks for your reporting this problem.

-- 
Matthias Andree