[leafnode-list] Re: using leafnode with existing spool

[Matthias Andree]

Am 24.11.22 um 04:19 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt via leafnode-list:
> On 24/11/2022 05:07, Julian Bradfield via leafnode-list wrote:
>> "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt at acm.org> wrote:
>>> So if $NEWSSPOOL is /news, and Leafnode is configured
>>> "--with-spooldir=/leafnode/", then "ln -s /news/comp /leafnode" and so
>>> on should do the right thing.
>>
>> OK. That seems deceptively simple :) I'll give it a try.
>> (Well, I'll configure Leafnode with --with-spooldir=/news )
>>
> I hope by this you mean that $NEWSSPOOL is not /news??  The spool
> directories should not be the same.
>
>> I presume it does or can read .overview files put there by somebody
>> else.
>>
> Leafnode doesn't use the .overview files, it just scans the directories.

Is that so? How come that multiple leafnode .c source files deal with
.overview then?

One thing to get the spool in order is "texpire -r" (repair, or "repair
and migrate" in newer leafnode).