Doubts on INN logs

[Kevin McKinnon]

> > >1st:  Unwanted newsgroups (Top 20). Follows a list of groups. Why are they
> > >unwanted? I didn't select them to be. Where is this configured?
> > 
> > That means you don't have those groups in your "active" file.
> 
> if those groups aren't in the active file, where could they possibly be?
> scanlog wouldn't display the list if the newsgoups aren't written
> somewhere. or... can it be from old newsgroups (removed)?

Unwanted newsgroup messages are logged (on my system, anyway) in 
~news/log/news.  scanlog parses this file to count up the newsgroups 
that were offered but rejected because the group wasn't in your 
active file (and number of articles and byte counts from individual 
feeders, etc.).

Cheers,
Kev

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Kevin McKinnon, Sr. News Administrator              news at sunshinecable.com
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