Re: fetch (leafnode) sucks all mail in second run?
Marcus Brinkmann:
> I started to use leafnode today. It installs smoothly, and then I had to
> install a news reader (NNTP client). I first tried knews, but I didn't get
> any news (following the /usr/doc/leafnode/INSTALL, I started fetch, knews and
> then fetch again).
The first run of fetch is to get the list of available newsgroups. After that,
you run knews, to let leafnode know what newsgroups are interesting to you.
Then you run fetch again to actually download the news, and finally, you run
knews to read the fetched news.
So, after running fetch ; knews ; fetch, when you run knews again, you're
saying no news is available?
> In the second try, I installed trn, overriding the dependencies (trn depends
> on inews), because all news reader depends either on inews or on cnews,
> instead on a news server.
Looks like some news readers have messed up dependancies. None of them
should depend on a news server at all, becuase they can connect to remote
servers. I'm going to file a bug report on trn for this, are there any more
news readers you found that depend on a news server?
> I started fetch, then trn, then fetch again...
Not necesserary to do this with each new news reader, you only have to do it
once.
> This was 40 minutes before, and fetch is sucking news in all usenet groups,
> and this is not what I really want...
>
> I have only four active groups, and exactly this four groups are mentioned
> in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups.
Do you have any .* files in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/ ? I think
fetch looks at those too.
Are you sure that fetch is in fact downloading all of usenet? It surely
shouldn't do that, but it can be a little confusing if you're looking in
/var/spool/news. Say you just read comp.os.linux.misc. If there are
crossposts in that newsgroup to other newsgroups, then fetch will create
directories in /var/spool/news for these newsgoups, and put links to the
crossposted articles in the directories. So if you think fetch is
downloading all of usenet becuadse you see groups in /var/spool/news that
you don't subscribe to, do keep crossposts in mind.
Please run "fetch -v -v -v" insted of fetch, and watch what it's doing. (Or
feel free to log it to a file and send it to me). You should be able to tell
what newsgroups it's downloading this way.
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see shy jo
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