> * The active file for my main newsfeed (active.news1.ucsd.edu) is > updated according to the expire time listed in the "nntpcache.servers" > file. However, the main "active" file isn't then updated until I send the > server a -USR1 signal. Am I missing something in the documentation? The main active file will only updated if the hash of the server active file has changed. Can you provide the logs? You should see something like collating active.news1.ucsd.edu -> active.tmp > Shouldn't nntpcache notice that it has updated info from all its > servers and should hence rebuild its active-file cache without prompting? Yep. > * I'm a little confused about the Xref: handling. From the way I read > the source (in article.c), my server could report an Xref: to a group > that it doesn't handle (as specified in nntpcache.servers), and the > article.c code will happily insert a symlink from that bogus newsgroup. It does, unfortunately. I'm working on this already. It involves splitting up the cache into per-server trees. > If this is correct, is there an easy way to fix this? Do you have a sister you can donate to a good cause? -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | 0619737CCC143F6DEA73E27378933690 | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+
