clarification

[Jeffrey M.Vinocur]

On Jan 1, 2005, at 1:37 AM, Praveen Ramaswamy wrote:

> 1. On my old news server storage method is set to CNFS and it stores
> articles in the following path
> ~news/spool/articles/hparticles/newsgroupname/articlenumber

This is how tradspool stores articles.  Your old server's storage.conf 
must not have been doing what you expected.


>   On my new server also storage method is same. Also cycbuff.conf is 
> also
> same. But I don't see anything under the path ~news/articles/.......

This sounds like CNFS working as intended.  You can $pathbin/cnfsstat 
to check up on your CNFS buffers and see them being used.


> 2. When I say CNFS it "first is fist out" right?

Yes.


> Then how remember:/ in expire.ctl will effect ?

That setting has -nothing- to do with how long articles are kept around.

It determines how long the article's entry stays in the history 
database.  This is what keeps your server from accepting duplicate 
articles if a peer offers them to you after several days delay.  It has 
the same meaning with CNFS as with any other storage method.

-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org