[leafnode-list] Re: leafnode creating multi-megabyte log files )-:

[Robert Grimm]

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:
> You haven't shown the fetchnews command line (from shell or cron) that
> triggers this kind of logging.  The -x option is notorious for that,
> naturally :)

For reference
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623302

> Also, if your fetchnews runs do not complete successfully or cannot
> update (= write to) the last-fetched records in the server-status files
> (.../leaf.node/news.gmane.org), that situation can cause such logging.

I'm quite sure that I've seen such logging without the mentioned
circumstances, but I have yet to setup a test system to investigate
further.

Rob
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