> If a group has not been read for more then two weeks, dnews will set it > automatically to uncached (if i understand it well..). The trigger to cache > it again is when a user opens the group and reads an article (?) But what > happens then....? Will dnews automatically download all articels since the > last time it cached the group? I notice that there a many articles missing
Hi, DNews will download the most recent messages from the group based on your feed rules. If you only allow DNews to download items no older than 30 days, it will skip downloading any that are older than that. > although i triggered dnews myself to read a group which has not been cached > anymore. When i manually give the command to cache it again (and start the > update)( tellnews cache and update) it is ok within a few minutes..... So > the normal trigger is not good enough..? Or do i misunderstand something? If the items missing are in the middle, it is likely DNews is skipping the articles following the last update as they are now 'too old'. The older messages remain because they have not yet been expired, or they are in the last bucket within a pile (buckets are only removed when full). If it is the new articles that are not yet up to date, it is because DNews is obeying the limit on the number of articles to obtain with each suck... manually issuing an update will cause this group to be added to the sucking queue again and the more recent messages obtained. You should not need to use the 'tellnews cached' command to get the group sucking after a user has accessed it. If you are seeing any behaviour other than this, please let us know more details so we may investigate. Send dnews.conf, newsfeeds.conf, expire.conf, and the name of groups that have this problem. - Roydon L.
