At 10:58 PM 5/16/01 -0400, you wrote:
>1. I look in my dnews.conf, there is not setting for bucket_size, is its
>default size 50mb?
Usually, it depends on spool size.
>2. So basically, each pile can have multi bucket. And if I all all of the
>pile and bucket together (# of pile) * (# of bucket per pile) , that
>should be my total disk space?
Yes sort of, but you don't have to work this out, you just specify total
diskspace and the % each pile can use.
>3. How many pile can I possible have?
About a hundred , I recommend about 10 or less.
>4. How can I make a pile (I think you can define a individual pile to
>only specified set of newsgroup) to never expire (or at least not for 12
>months or more). Let say I want a pile that is dedicated to
>microsoft.public.*, and use its as a archieve system, so I don't want any
>incoming suck news to expire or deleted for a whole year!
You simply don't define use% or days, in the expire.conf line, e.g.
pile 3 microsoft.public.*
chrisP.
