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Re: leafnode question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Mon Nov 18 07:25:41 1996

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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 18 Nov 1996 07:53:48 +0100
In-Reply-To: Bob Taylor's message of Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:22:42 -0800
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Bob Taylor <brtaylor@qtpi.lakewood.ca.us> writes:

> I installed leafnode and it seems I am getting a full newsfeed.

Don't think so.

> In the directory /var/spool/news/interesting.groups are only the groups I'm
> interested in. 

And these are the only ones you'll get.

>Do I touch -t (last week) for EVERY file in /var/spool/news/<group>??

No.

> Fetch has been running for 3 hours and 20 minutes so far

Run it with arguments "-v" for more information on what happens.

> and /var/spool/news> has a directory for EVERY newsgroup!

Yup. And you'll find articles in groups you don't read also. These are
hardlinks to articles in groups you do read.


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