Adam, Thanks for the response - it will be of great help. I run Debian myself but I get out of my depth very quickly with anything that does not come in a .deb file. If anyone could dig up a copy of keep-alive it would help. At the moment I am starting nntpcache via a script in /etc/init.d. Is this the way to ok or should I swap to inittab? I looked at the suck get-news but there is no way that I can patch it to run with nntpcache. Still open to ideas here. Just for the record I changed to 1.0.3 and it would not start until I zapped the old cache. There were entries in the log about Bad file number: couldn't prune history (second fgets()). This is all on behalf of a school that is connected via a 28k modem. Thanks, Lindsay On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > >I assume that I need to add the Xref: to the format - do I include the > >"full" as well? Do I put each field on its own line? > > Do not include the "full" (or the colons) and list them all on one line. > > >Q2. > >I want to prime the cache with a few chosen groups during the night. (The > >link is a 28k modem.) Something like suck. Is there such a beast? > > There was a perl script floating around a while ago that someone said would > do that for testing purposes. Also why not use suck? > > >Q4 > >Is this a stable product? I have seen several patches suggested during > >the last week and they do not seem to be addressed in 1.0.2. > > I've been using it for about 6 months and it's worked well for us. We have > had problems with it dying unexplainable but I put a simple entry into the > /etc/inittab file like: > > nn:2345:respawn:/usr/local/bin/keep-alive.pl > > with the script keep-alive.pl provide by someone on this list and it works > great. If it does ever die it automatically restarts. Worst case the > server is down for a couple of minutes as it sorts its self out. > > It also hasn't died since I upgraded to 1.0.2 though it's has only been a > few days. > > This is on debian linux running kernel 2.0.21 > > Adam. > >
