At 02:47 AM 5/17/01 +0300, you wrote:
>I had a problem with local groups, which kept disappearing...
>
>I wasn't too worried about it (they were test groups we had created
>which no-one was much interested in anyway) and the question of "why?"
>was never asked.
>
>It was, however, answered recently when support replied to another user
>with the same question. Doing a matchfeed/matchgroups killed them
>because they're not on the upstream server (obviously, if they're
>local).
>
>Now the question's been answered, it raises another. How to avoid this.
>Is the answer NEVER to do a matchgroups?
There is a trick, if your local group is called raha.chat for example, then
you should have in dnews.conf
nntp_feeder upstream.site.name *,!raha.chat
Then the matchfeed will not delete the raha.chat group, obviously
a wild card can be used:
nntp_feeder upstream.site.name *,!raha.*
Lastly you can do this:
tellnews undelete "raha.*"
to get the groups back after the matchfeed.
ChrisP.
