At 12:13 PM 1/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
Hi,
>I'm trying DNews out and have seen this message appear in my dnews.in file..
>28 02:06:05 1:in: reject: Item far too big, ignoring it
>Apart from the item being too big.. I'd like to know why dnews thinks it's
>too big and what the threshold is.
The default is 1mb, you can set it in dnews.conf and newsfeeds.conf, to set
it to 5mb you would set in dnews.conf
item_max 5000000
And in newsfeeds.conf
site me
groups *
maxsize 5000000
I strongly recommend you don't set it larger than about 5mb.
Also, I'm just sucking two groups at the moment, one binary and one text so
I can evaluate how dnews performs. At the moment (the server has been
running for just one day) almost all the binary files are incomplete and
there seems to be a lot of articles missing from the text group. When you
install a new copy of dnews, how does it go about fetching older existing
articles? At the moment I'm assuming that the multi-parts from the binary
groups becoming complete is because most of them were started before I
installed dnews.
It defaults to fetching only the last 2000 items in a group, usually this
is enough but you can increase it by setting in dnews.conf
maxold 5000
I suspect your problem may also be caused by parts being incomplete
on the upstream site? But you can check that manually to be sure.
Chrisp.
