At 08:35 AM 2/5/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am a using an evaluation copy of DNews to determine if I can get it to do what I
>need and I am having a bit of trouble.
>
>What I want to do is have DNews act as a header cache. Whenever a client (in my case
>NewsBin) requests headers from a group I want DNews to:
>
> 1) Go retrieve all new headers in this group regardless of how many there are or
> how long it will take. If it is the first time a group has been retrieved then it
> should retrieve ALL headers on the feed which could be alot if the feed has good
> retention but thats OK.
>
> 2) Every 24 hours retreive all new headers in this group and every other group
> which has been requested by a client in the last 20 days.
>
> 3) When pulling new headers for a group if a header is no longer available on the
> feed then remove it from the cache.
>
>I know that I should at least be able to do items 1&2. I have gotten pretty close to
>this goal but things are not quite working. When I tell newsbin to download headers
>for a number of large binary groups I can see that DNEWS is queueing the header
>requests and pulling headers. However when I come back the next day (these are large
>groups and would probably take almost a day to get all the headers) I can only see a
>fraction of all the header that I know should be present. Some groups have ok
>coverage some have almost nothing as if they did not get queued properly.
>Additionally I am never seeing headers with a date older then the current date.
>
>In the end whenever I get headers in newsbin I want DNEWS to begin caching that group
>and keep caching it for 20 days. I want it to get ALL headers in that group which
>exist on the feed, new and old, and when they are removed from the feed they should
>be removed from the DNEWS cache.
>
>Below are the options that I have set in dnews.conf any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Have you issued this command,
tellnews getold "*" 10000
if not, do that, then see if it works, if not let me know and send suck.log
(send to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
ChrisP.
