OV3 ... some doc problems

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Apr 10 06:33:55 UTC 2000


Going through old INN mailing list traffic.

Francis Swasey <fswasey at btv.ibm.com> writes:

> the man page for actived (doc/man/actived.8) still exists even though
> there is no trace of actived the program

It now correctly says that actived is obsolete in INN 2.3.

> there are still the three actived items in the sample inn.conf file
> (activedenable, activedupdate, and activedport)

Removed.

> There is no documentation in the inn.conf.5 man page about the
> overcachesize, enableoverview, addnntppostinghost, and
> addnntppostingdate items for the inn.conf file.

Added to inn.conf(5).

> I can deal with actived being gone, but aside from reading the code
> closely, what should I set overcachesize and enableoverview to on a
> reader machine that needs to have overview?  I'm assuming enableoverview
> should be "true" -- but just want a quick sanity check on my tired mind.

I'm sure you figured this out some time back, but yeah, "yes" is the right
value.

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



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