changegroup while throttled => "ctlinnd: Must be running"

[Kai Henningsen]

rra at stanford.edu (Russ Allbery)  wrote on 02.11.04 in <87fz3sywtc.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>:

> Felix E Klee <felix.klee at inka.de> writes:
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:12:14 -0400 Jeffrey M.Vinocur wrote:
>
> >>> Comments?  Should I avoid changing the state of a group while the
> >>> server is throttled?
>
> >> I think this is actually by design.
>
> It is, although I never did understand why.
>
> > Then it should be documented in the man page.  For example:
>
> > changegroup group rest
> >     The newsgroup group is changed so that its fourth field in the
> >     active file becomes the value specified by the rest parameter.  This
> >     may be used to make an existing group moderated or unmoderated, for
> >     example.  This command can only be done while the server is running.
>
> Good point.

I thought last time around, it was decided that this was a bug?

MfG Kai