Patch for sm
Kjetil Torgrim Homme
kjetilho at ifi.uio.no
Wed Dec 11 07:43:50 UTC 2002
[Russ Allbery]:
>
> Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho at ifi.uio.no> writes:
> > it was written to populate a Diablo reader server while keeping INN as
> > the backend spool server. as you probably know, a Diablo reader only
> > keeps overview and active information. it will populate a cache of
> > actually requested articles when running, but you can clear this if you
> > like.
>
> Hm. It takes rnews batch files containing the headers? Or was
> there another piece of glue involved?
I copied the batch file across the net using rsync -e "ssh -C" or
something, then used rnews to convert the data to NNTP, IIRC. these
days people use innxmit instead, not sure if it can do it as optimally
on network resources.
> If there was another piece of glue involved, I'm inclined to say
> that that piece of glue should do the removal of bodies, since
> otherwise one has a nasty rnews batch sitting around that, if ever
> imported into a regular server, would result in potential
> propagation of corrupt articles.
I see your point. it would be nice if rnews had a switch to support a
header feed, but I didn't bother at the time.
Kjetil T.
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