some questions

[Russ Allbery]

Going back through some more old e-mail.

Matus fantomas Uhlar <uhlar at fantomas.sk> writes:

> after a long time i started play with INN again, installed 2.2 and i
> have a feq questions/recommendations

> - what advantage does use of actived give comparing to mmapping active file?

I don't think it provides very much, and I think that was part of the
justification for removing actived in the current version of INN.  It
helps a lot on systems without a sufficiently robust mmap, though.

> - actived is being start by inndstart... I think I don't need indstart cause
>   I run innd on non-privileged port. do i need it ?

Right.  (This case should be supported explicitly, really... added to the
to-do list, which I really need to distill out of my mailbox and into a
file.)

> - i will run nnrpd as separate process on different port. It seems I must
>   run it separately (not from rc.news) true ?

Right, and again we really need to add the ability to start nnrpd in
daemon mode to rc.news at some point.  Or provide a separate script to do
it or something.

> - I am running nntpcache with innd and I do rotating of log files by my own
>   way in system scripts. I added 'norotate' as flag to news.daily but it
>   still tries to crease .0 files which are created by other script and
>   should be only processed by news.daily...
>   I changed news.daily and commented out lines which are rewriting logs and
>   I am thinking if it needs better way to detect if it'sneeded...

Agreed, and this too is on the to-do list.  I don't think innd should be
renaming its old files; it should behave like nearly all other daemons and
just flush, close, and re-open its log files when told to.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>