overhead / multiple articles
Henry Penninkilampi
htp at metropolis.net.au
Wed Oct 20 18:05:46 UTC 1999
Greetings!
My experience with INN amounts to less then two hours, so now that you
have an appropriate stereotype in mind, I'll proceed:
I've got a RedHat Linux 5.1 system with the default INN installed
(upgrading to RedHat 6.1 soon). I want to be able to send a FAQ to a
newsgroup on a regular basis. I have tweaked inn.conf:
server : news.metropolis.net.au
domain : metropolis.net.au
... and have the following command as a CRON job:
NNTPSERVER=news.metropolis.net.au /usr/bin/inews -h < /home/htp/faq
Now, I've got it to work - the article gets posted - BUT:
Whenever the job runs, my (56K permanent modem) link gets *hammered* for
about three minutes. We're talking about 900 KB worth of data - all of
it *inbound*. The article is only 5 KB in size.
In my mind, 900 KB is just *way* more overhead than a single article
should generate - so something else must be happening.
Any ideas?
A follow-up question: Is it possible to embed multiple articles into a
single file and have them posted as separate messages by INN? For
example: The 'faq' document could contain Part1, Part3, Part3... and I'd
like each part to be posted as a separate message (with different
headers).
Thanks.
Henry.
PS: news.metropolis.net.au is a CNAME to an upstream provider whom I
have an NNRP feed from.
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