[leafnode-list] Re: Suddenly leafnode isn't downloading any new articles
Adam Funk
a24061 at ducksburg.com
Tue Mar 7 16:03:36 CET 2023
On 2023-03-07, Gary R. Schmidt via leafnode-list wrote:
> On 08/03/2023 01:16, Ken Robinson via leafnode-list wrote:
>> The group is very active. The problem was that the file with the group's
>> name got deleted from the interesting.groups directory. I'm not sure how
>> that happened. Once I put it back in, everything started working again. I
>> think I will put a cron job in that will check to make sure that the file
>> is still there and re-create it if it disappears again.
>>
> If no one accesses a newsfroup for timeout_long days it is removed from
> the active list.
>
> The default setting for "timeout_long" in 1.12.0 is 7 days:
> timeout_long = 7
> By default, a group that has not been read at all
> is being fetched for seven days before being
> unsubscribed. This interval can be changed by setting
> timeout_long to a different value.
>
> I set it to 30, ages ago, and I have a script that "touch"es things that
> are in .newsrc files in .../interesting.groups to keep them alive.
The Debian/Ubuntu packages of leafnode used to come with a
touch_newsgroup program (Perl script, IIRC) that could be used to keep
things in 'interesting.groups' from disappearing.
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