🚀 go-pugleaf

John Thompson wrote:

> Occassinally I have been able to get fetch to start up and begin
> to download an active list from my ISP, but I've never managed to
> go beyond this.  I've never gotten a complete active list yet,
> and certainly no articles.  And God, is it slow!  I suspect fetch
> only runs a single thread to connect to the remote host.  The
> longest it ran was for almost an hour and it still only managed
> to get part of the active list.  My OS/2 server package (changi)
> uses a multi-threaded "fetch" utility that can download my ISP's
> active list in less than ten minutes using eight simultaneous
> connections.  I tried downloading the active list with changi in
> OS/2 and copying the file to where leafnode could use it, but
> leafnode didn't like something about this and went into a
> prolonged pout again.

If you use "fetch -vvv", you'll get a clearer idea of what's happening
the first time you run it.  It gets the active file and then creates a
directory structure for your news, i.e.
"/var/spool/news/comp/os/linux/misc", it then looks for descriptions for
each group.  Once the initial connection is completed, each newsgroup
has one article - a placeholder for leafnode.  You then set up your
subscribed groups and connect to your ISP.  This time (and
subsequently), fetch only gets your articles for the groups you
subscribed to.

I have to admit I didn't get it working properly first time either, but
R'ing TFM helped.  :)

> I was hoping I'd be able to move my news server from OS/2 to
> linux, but things just aren't looking too promising at the
> moment.   At this point I am considering either finding an
> alternative to fetch to feed leafnode (since leafnode itself
> appears to work now; I just don't have any articles to use with
> it), maybe suck or slurp or whatever somebody can suggest that
> works, or running a full-blown nntp server like INN, which
> strikes me as overkill for the three or four users here at my
> house.
> 
> Looking for ideas...

Try again is my suggestion.  Once it's all working, leafnode is pretty
much maintainance-free.

regards,

Barry
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Using Linux 2.0.35 with RedHat 5.1
"If Linux is like driving with the top down, Windows is like driving
with the wheels off." - Me, 1998