[leafnode-list] Re: How to make leafnode refresh all groups without having to visit them?

[Matthias Andree]

Am 17.10.2009, 09:54 Uhr, schrieb Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:

> 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.

This is a problem with reading from the news spool, rather than via NNTP -  
leafnode cannot detect which groups are interesting to you. You can change  
the cron scripts to use "fetchnews -n" (rather than just fetchnews) and  
use the touch command to create files named after the groups you're  
interested in in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/. The files should be  
0-sized.

> 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.

Leafnode cannot read your .newsrc file, so you need to manually do things  
as described above, or switch to NNTP.

-- 
Matthias Andree