> > > 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 :-)
>
> LOL! That figures :-)
>
> > The format of the update_at, expire_at, and groups_at settings are as
> > follows -
>
> 8<
>
> > 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
>
> So:
> groups_at 30
> will refresh the groups list ever hour at 30 minutes past the hour?
Nearly, you need to tell it what hours to do this, as well as the minutes.
groups_at 30 *
updates at 30 minutes past every hour, and,
groups_at 30 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22
updates every two hours at 0030,0230...,2230.
If you leave off the hours, I don't think it will work at all :-)
- Roydon L.
