At 10:37 PM 12/11/01 +1100, you wrote:
>I am having problems with the UUCP feed. I am trying to gateway
>messages from dnews into my BBS via UUCP. What I want to do is to suck
>down a pre-defined set of newsgroups from one or two upstream feeds
>and feed them out to the UUCP feed. Most of the groups will never be
>read by a newsreader.
>
>It appears that dnews is only ever sucking groups that have been read
>by a reader. Is there a way to get dnews to suck all the groups in the
>active file without any readers?
>
>One of the dNews support people recommended to:
>
> > Use this command: tellnews cached "*" 10
>
>but that only kept them cached for 10 days. I guess I could just set
>them to be cached for something like 1000 days but is there any way to
>set groups to be permanently sucked?
Hi, basically the only way is to do this;
tellnews cached "*" 10000
we used to have a setting to do this but frankly it was consistently used
incorrectly as doing this is almost (but not always as in your case) a bad
idea and we eventually had to remove the setting to stop it being
used incorrectly, so now only the command as above does what you want.
ChrisP.
