>>>Can I reserve space for the history and the work directories by lowering
>>>the diskspace value?
>>As above, yes in your case.
>
>Just to be sure: diskspace only affects the size of the spool-directory?
Diskspace tells dnews how much space to use in the 'spool' area, if that
happens to
be the same disk/partition as is used for history or other areas, then
decreasing the 'diskspace' setting will create more space for those other
areas.
> Btw. here's a new question:
>What is the "correct" way to block certain newsgroups from incoming ihave
>streams? Till a few days ago i thought that just removing the groups
>(rmgroup,purgegroup,restart) worked just fine. But now i get messages like
>this:
>
>14 17:36:34.073 :in: reject: Feedrule: No newsgroups matched
>{alt.binaries.old.games}: newsrouter.chello.at: :
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>14 17:36:35.092 :in: ok: Item stored on local system:
>newsrouter.chello.at: alt.binaries.old.games.reposts:
><7UnO8.32516$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 504992
>14 17:36:36.013 :in: ok: Item stored on local system:
>newsrouter.chello.at: alt.binaries.old.games.reposts:
><NLnO8.32360$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 505046
>14 17:36:37.096 :in: reject: Feedrule: No newsgroups matched
>{alt.binaries.old.games}: newsrouter.chello.at: :
><rQnO8.715617$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>The accepting/rejecting seems to be random; can this be related to
>cross-posted articles?
Yes. There are several things you can do depending on how much you care.
1) rmgroup - gets rid of the group, and rejects non cross posted
articles
2) In newsfeeeds.conf use @ e.g.
site me
groups *,@alt.binaries.old.games
That means, reject it, and reject any post that is cross posted to
this group even
if you do carry the other groups the message is posted to.
3) Ask you upstream system not to send the group, this is
worthwhile for the
very large binary groups (assuming you don't want one of them) as it then
saves you
the bandwidth too.
ChrisP.
