On Thu, 7 May 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
> I have this problem where nntpcache (NNTPcache server V2.3.2.1 on Linux)
> will return the CORRECT values to a LISTGROUP command but not to an XOVER
> command.
I have come up with a solution to this, albeit a rather ugly one. Each
night I simply run this script:
#!/bin/bash
warn () {
echo "$1" 1>&2
}
err () {
warn "$1"
exit 1
}
CACHEDIR=/var/spool/news/nntpcache
kill `cat ${CACHEDIR}/nntpcache.pid.DEFAULT\:119` || err "cannot kill nntpcached"
rm ${CACHEDIR}/cache* || warn "Hmmm, unable to remove 'cache.*' files"
# to ensure the old ones are gone
sleep 5
/usr/local/sbin/nntpcached 2> /dev/null || err "failed to start nntpcached"
This is ugly but it DOES ensure all readers never see headers for articles
which are unavailable.
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Richard Shepherd (richards@waikato.ac.nz)
Phone: 07-838-4764
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