> I have been thinking that it may be a good idea to regularly let DNews
> refresh its grouplist from my suck feed, i figured i'd need the groups_at
> command in dnews.conf but it doesn't seem to work the way i expected it
to.
> I have entered the following line:
>
> groups_at *120
>
> in an attempt to have DNews check every 2 hours for new newsgroups.
> To be quite frank, the time format isn't very clear to me, so for all i
know
> i could have set DNews to check for new groups once every 120 years :-))
Hi,
Close, you have set dnews to update the group list on all minutes that end
in '120'. Given there are 60 minutes in an hour I think it is safe to assume
this will never occur :-)
The format of the update_at, expire_at, and groups_at settings are as
follows -
????_at minutes[,minutes,...] hours[hours,...]
Spaces between hours and minutes are essential.
While you can probably work it out from there or a single example, I will
provide a few examples for the benefit of others reading the support
archives.
To update every two hours, you could use the following setting -
groups_at 30 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22
This will update the group lists at 0030,0230...,2230
Similarly, you could update twice every hour like this -
update_at 15,45 *
(15 and 45 minutes past every hour - all hours represented by *)
A source of much confusion is the default dnews.conf setting (for sucking
feeds) -
update_at *5 *
This is every 10 minutes, but many people find it confusing. This actually
means update every time the minute ends in '5', which occurs once every 10
minutes. '*0 *', or '*3 *' would also cause an update to occur once every 10
minutes - this is useful if you have multiple sucking feeds as you can make
them do incremental updates at slightly different times (avoids large
sucking queues).
The exception to the above rule is 'expire_at' where the minutes have no
effect (this is because expire is a very time consuming process, and it
really doesn't need to be done more than once a day using pile-based
expire).
- Roydon L.
> Another question i have is about the nightly expire process.
> It's ahhh... well... not nightly. Each day at around 17:00 hrs i receive
the
> daily report, right after the expire process is finished.
> How can i change the time this nightly expire process runs?
>
>
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