On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Tor Houghton wrote: > > > Um, this may be a FAQ, but I've run into problems with having my NNTPcache > directory on the same partition as my logs and mail spool. I can't seem to > get NNTPcache to only use _part_ of the disk I've allocated to /var. > > When people are greedy (newsing through alt.binaries.*) the disk fills up > pretty quickly. The problem is that NNTPcache seems to want that disk > space, and never releases it, once it has it (sure it caches out articles, > but it still just keeps growing until it runs out of space). > > Therefore, logs and mail (in my case) have problems being delivered. > > As a quick hack solution, I've written a perl script which "df's" the > partition, killing certain groups if over a threshold. > > Is there a way of setting up NNTPcache a la Squid? "Don't you use any more > disk space than XXXXMB" > > Or did I just skip this part in the config file? > Yes you did, but I have some problems with this feature because it does not always works... So if anyone else can tell me (us) otherwise.. --Sijbren
