Re: Setting fetchnews to only fetch, or only post, news.

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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:14:55 -0500, "Nollaig MacKenzie"
<nollaig@...> said:
> 
> On 2007.01.24 13:58:59, you,
>  the extraordinary uni-dortmund@..., opined:
> 
> > Is it possible to set fetchnews to only fetch, or only post, news?
> > 
> > At the moment, my root user has this cronjob:
> > *\10 * * * * /usr/sbin/fetchnews -f >> /var/log/crontablog 2>&1
> > 
> > and what I'd love would be something like:
> > *\10 * * * * /usr/sbin/fetchnews -fetch >> /var/log/crontablog 2>&1
> > *\15 * * * * /usr/sbin/fetchnews -post >> /var/log/crontablog 2>&1
> > ...where the -f and -p denote fetch only and post only.
> > 
> > This would allow news to be fetched on one schedule but posted on a
> > different schedule.
> > There doesn't seem to be provision for this in the fetchnews manpage.
> > 
> > Any possibility of this?
> > =======================
> 
> [Mac OSX, leafnode 1.11.5]
> 
> 	fetchnews -P
> 

Re: Setting fetchnews to only fetch, or only post, news.

uni-dortmund@... writes:

> I had to go a little further to adjust the dates of the message to
> reflect when they were posted, not when they were created.
> If you're interested, I came up with the following:
>
> 1) Create directory /var/spool/news/leafnodeDelaySending
> 2) Create the following script at
> ~/Documents/systemWork/myScripts/leafnodeFetchOnly

Ah well. leafnode-2 has switches to support just fetching without
sending or the other way around...

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Matthias Andree

Re: Disable deletion of articles with "illegal headers"?

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 (yes, long ago...), Adam Funk wrote:

> I keep seeing "contained illegal headers" lines [1] in leafnode's logs
> and I see that the articles in question are missing from the spool.

> Is it possible to disable the deletion of the articles so I can read
> them anyway?

Adam, does the attached patch work for you and keep the articles in your
spool? The patch is against leafnode 1.11.5.

If it works, it can become part of leafnode 1.11.6, which IMO should be
the last leafnode 1 release I'm going to make.

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Matthias Andree

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leafnode 1.11.6 release candidate #1

Greetings,

leafnode-1.11.6.rc1 has been released, it is available from
<http://home.pages.de/~mandree/leafnode/>.

Please test this release candidate and report success or failure.

Finding a bug WRT filtering inconsistency and the bug fix makes me offer
the third release candidate, please test thoroughly for regressions,
particularly if you're using applyfilter.

These are the important changes since 1.11.5:

### BUGFIXES
.site TLDs are refused in FQDN.
apply patch from Georg Schwarz to fix compilation with SGI IDO cc.
do not delete articles if the References: lines are malformatted.
  Reported by Adam Funk.
support autoconf 2.60, fixing datarootdir-related warnings.

### DOCUMENTATION
fix minor typos in README-FQDN.
minor changes to INSTALL.

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Matthias Andree

leafnode 1.11.6 release candidate #1 (corrected)

Greetings,

leafnode-1.11.6.rc1 has been released, it is available from
<http://home.pages.de/~mandree/leafnode/>.

Please test this release candidate and report success or failure.
leafnode-1.11.6 is the last planned leafnode-1 release.

[Please disregard information about some third release candidate I
forgot to delete in the first version of this message.]

These are the important changes since 1.11.5:

### BUGFIXES
.site TLDs are refused in FQDN.
apply patch from Georg Schwarz to fix compilation with SGI IDO cc.
do not delete articles if the References: lines are malformatted.
  Reported by Adam Funk.
support autoconf 2.60, fixing datarootdir-related warnings.

### DOCUMENTATION
fix minor typos in README-FQDN.
minor changes to INSTALL.

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-- 
Matthias Andree

Re: Disable deletion of articles with "illegal headers"?

On 2007-02-25, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Adam, does the attached patch work for you and keep the articles in your
> spool? The patch is against leafnode 1.11.5.

Give me a little while to get round to trying it out.

Thanks,
Adam