At 04:49 PM 1/28/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks. If I change these settings, can I then make it go back and get
>the last 5000 articles or does it do it automatically?
Hi,
Yes run
tellnews getold "*" 5000
Jesse
>Dave
>
>On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:49:11 +1300, NetWin Support Auckland
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
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