Hello,
i'm trying to suck some news from different nntp servers, because the
newsfeed is far from complete on them. My server file looks like this:
cat servers
# host:port Interface Active Act.tim Newsgrp Group
Xover Arts
news.fhg.de. DEFAULT 20m 4d 4d 15m
60d 60d
news.massena.com. DEFAULT 20m 4d 4d 15m
60d 60d
news.uni-hohenheim.de. DEFAULT 20m 4d 4d 15m
60d 60d
%BeginGroups
# Group pattern Host
fido.ger.* news.uni-hohenheim.de.
bln.* news.uni-hohenheim.de.
alt.* news.uni-hohenheim.de.
pilot.* news.massena.com.
* news.fhg.de.
But as far as i can see i can't reach the pilot devel groups on
news.massena.com/pilot.* and ALL other groups are fetched from
news.fhg.de/*. The news.uni-hohenheim.de entry is ignored.
It might be that the alt.* groups are available from news.fhg.de (but
only a few of them), but i would prefer to suck ALL alt.* & bln.*
groups from news.uni-hohenheim.de.
The nntpcache spool dir looks like this (after sucking some groups)
4 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.massena.com.
2 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./comp/lang/oberon
4 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./comp/lang
56 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./comp/os/linux/announce
58 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./comp/os/linux
60 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./comp/os
6 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./comp/society/futures
8 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./comp/society
74 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./comp
208 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./rec/games/netrek
210 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./rec/games
6 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./rec/humor
218 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./rec
10 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./alt/religion/computers
12 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./alt/religion
2 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./alt/folklore/computers
4 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./alt/folklore
18 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./alt
2 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./talk/religion/misc
4 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./talk/religion
6 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./talk
2 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./aus/computers
4 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./aus
2 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./misc/kids/computer
4 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./misc/kids
6 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./misc
2 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./soc/history
4 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de./soc
332 /var/spool/nntpcache/news.fhg.de.
428 /var/spool/nntpcache
Questions: Will the active file contain the groups from all nntp
servers? Which server is prefered if a group is available from
different servers?
Thanx for any hint,
Dirk
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