At 07:45 PM 6/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I know it sounds daft, but I've been using the command
>tellnews getold "*" 1000
>occassionaly and it always seems to pick up extra messages that were
>not picked up before. Not just a few messages, but usually about 300
>or so per group.
>
>It's also not that unusual - the Agent newsreader program does the
>same I believe (or has an option to) to make sure you always have an
>up to date list of messages.
>
>Do you have any suggestions on why I might be missing messages?
It can occur if the upstream server is basically faulty and sometimes sais
"i've got items 500-600' but then can't produce them when asked, then dnews
will skip past these as it assumed they will never exist and looks for new
ones.
It's also possible if your upstream server is really multiple servers with
different item counts all using teh same ip address, this is a totally invalid
configuration but I wouldn't be surprized if it occurs on occasion.
ChrisP.
>On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:44:51 +1200, NetWin Support Auckland
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >At 01:58 PM 6/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm wondering, when dnews sucks from an upstream server, does it use
> >>the last article number it pulled previously as the starting point or
> >>does it download all headers from the group and work out which ones it
> >>doesn't have?
> >
> >It uses the last number it previously fetched.
> >
> >
> >>Is it possible to change from one method to the other. I would ideally
> >>like it to pull down all headers everytime.
> >
> >That is a bit of an odd thing to want as news servers are not supposed to
> >ever change old item numbers.
> >
> >Anyway you can make it do this by issuing this command:
> > tellnews getold "*" 1000
> >If you do that in a cron/at job dnews will do what you want.
> >
> > ChrisP.
> >
> >
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