diff -u -Naur leafnode-1.9.25.rel/fink/README-Fink leafnode-1.9.25.rel.fink/fink/README-Fink --- leafnode-1.9.25.rel/fink/README-Fink Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 +++ leafnode-1.9.25.rel.fink/fink/README-Fink Wed Sep 4 17:08:37 2002 @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Once the leafnode service has been installed there's still some +important configuration yet to be done. There are 3 main steps: + +1) Edit @FINK_PREFIX@/etc/leafnode/config and set the server field to +the address of your ISP's news feed. + +2) Run @FINK_PREFIX@/sbin/fetchnews to download the list of groups +from your newsfeed. + +3) Schedule automated updating of active groups: + Leafnode tracks which groups have been accessed by clients and will + cache the articles in these `active' groups. The downloading is + performed by the fetchnews utility we just invoked manually, but + you likely don't want to have to do this every time you access + usenet. + + The solution is to add to the `news' user's crontab and schedule + fetchnews to run hourly/daily/etc. Also important is to schedule + texpire to run in order to prune out older articles (the threshold + for what constitutes an `old' thread is set through the `expire' + field. + + To set this up type: sudo -u news crontab -e + + Then add lines similar to: + 0 4 * * * @FINK_PREFIX@/sbin/texpire + 0 * * * * @FINK_PREFIX@/sbin/fetchnews + + The above lines will set texpire to run nightly at 4am and will + update the articles cache every hour on the hour. + +enjoy! +Christian Swinehart