At 02:14 PM 2/1/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Interesting. So if I make my entries in dnews.conf as follows:
>
>pull true
>nntp_feeder news.ne.mediaone.net *, !netwin.* , @*.binaries.*
Remove spaces from the above line, mostly in dnews you need to avoid spaces
as the
syntax is often space based.
>update_at *5 * Every 10 minutes
>update_at2 *5 * Every 10 minutes
>nntp_suck2 news.netwinsite.com netwin.*
>update_at3 20,40 * Twice an hour
>nntp_suck3 news.ne.mediaone.net *.binaries.*
>
>This will a) create separate concurrent threads for each feed b) pull
>everything except netwin and binary groups from my main feed; pull just
>netwin groups from your server; pull binaries only from my main feed (but in
>another thread from the text) twice an hour.
>
>If I got this right that's cool as my binaries now have a separate thread
>that can get clogged up all it likes while my other messages continue to
>filter though all the time.
Yes that is what it should do.
chrisP.
>David.
>
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>5.0.0.25.2.20010201151756.00b0b790@ball">news:5.0.0.25.2.20010201151756.00b0b790@ball...
> > At 02:44 PM 1/31/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Is it possible to re-order the suck feed so that it pulls, say binaries
>(or
> > >whatever you tell it), last? This way, I'd get all the important groups
>up
> > >front, and the less important ones last.
> >
> > Only in indirect ways. It tends to be circular so you end up waiting on
>the
> > binaries anyway. you can set your main nntp_Feeder settings to only fetch
> > the non binaries, and add an nntp-suck2 to fetch the binaries only once a
>day.
> >
> > But you will probably have to set limits so it doesn't fetch so much from
> > each binary
> > group, e.g.
> >
> > suck_batchsize 5000000
> > That would make it skip to the next group after 5mb.
> >
> > Also you could use the pull true settings so that the sucking of binary
>and
> > non binary
> > happened at the same time, see pull.htm in the manual.
> >
> > ChrisP.
> > '
> >
> >
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