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

Gary R. Schmidt grschmidt at acm.org
Sat Nov 26 11:29:36 CET 2022


On 26/11/2022 21:15, Matthias Andree via leafnode-list wrote:
> 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?
> 
Because I'm an idiot and was looking at the wrong thing.  ;-)

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)


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