> Upon startup or a SIGHUP it will completely reread the active file from the > upstream news server. Is that REALLY necessary? It certainly uses a lot of > bandwidth. nntpcached is meant to be a long-lived process. You shouldn't be starting it up and shuting it down all the time. You can adjust the refetch period in your servers configuration. > However, I have a bigger problem with this. We want to block all the sicko > groups and a large number of the alt.binaries.pictures groups. The access > file allows you to block certain newsgroups, which is a good thing. > However, because the active file is completely reread at startup those > groups will always be VISIBLE to the end user. The end user can still seem > them and when they try to access one of these blocked groups they get a > message about accessing being denied. Add a "strip" flag to the group flags. e.g * *pictures* deny,strip Read the comments in nntpcache.config for more information on how deny and strip work with each other. Cheers, Julian.
