[leafnode-list] Re: How to make leafnode refresh all groups without having to visit them?
Robert Grimm
lists at news.robgri.de
Sat Oct 17 10:42:30 CEST 2009
Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> I use tin as my newsreader. When it starts up it presents me with a
> list of my currently subscribed newsgroups and a count of new messages
> in each group.
> I then visit only the groups which have new messages (Shift/C sets all
> messages in current group read and moves to the next with unread
> messages). Thus I will never visit a group with no new messages and
> leafnode doesn't fetch anyhthing for that group and (circularly) there
> are no new messages.
> Is there any way around this? I want leafnode to always refresh all
> the groups in my .newsrc file regardless of whether I have visited
> them or not.
I'm not very familiar with tin, but this shouldn't be a problem if you
are reading with NNTP (e.g. tin -r) and you have entered the groups in
question at least once after subscribing.
You may take a look at timeout_short and timeout_long in
/etc/news/leafnode/config.
Rob
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