[leafnode-list] Re: watermarks

Paul Brooks paulbrooks59 at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 10 01:08:50 CEST 2009




>> sci.electronics.design: XOVER: reply was mutilated
>> news.task.gda.pl NNTP server disconnected or timed out while waiting for
>> response
>> .....
>>
>> It then exits without getting messages from any groups there after.
>
> Indeed. After a disconnect, fetchnews moves on to the next server.
>
>> Now I know its the servers problem but I was wondering if it is possible
>> to
>> change the watermark for that group by a message or 2 and how to do it,
>> so that it would not try and fetch the faulty header and message.
>
> You can edit leaf.node/news.task.gda.pl (it's inside the spooldir - check
> the output of leafnode-version) and bump the watermark of
> sci.electronics.design. It's a plain text file, but be sure your editor
> doesn't change whitespace unless you tell it to. "vim -b FILENAME" is safe.

That did the trick thank you.

Paul.



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