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

[Matthias Andree]

Am 26.11.22 um 11:29 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt via leafnode-list:
> 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.  ;-)

I don't think that's the cause ;-)

What I am saying is there is no need to mistreat yourself.