moving towards innfeed for sending outbound news

[The Doctor]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:05:37AM -0700, The Doctor wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:01:19AM -0600, The Doctor wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:39:53PM -0400, Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:
> > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, The Doctor wrote:
> > > 
> > > > how do you start innfeed with user and group news?
> > > 
> > > You configure the feeds, and INN takes care of starting innfeed for you.
> > > 
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > Next question ho do you get startinnfeed to run?
> > 
> > Usually, su -m -c news news -c /var/news/etc/rc.news kickstarts INN
> > to start up.
> > 
> > How do you get startinnfeed started?
> > 
> >  > How do you your feeds to send out using innfeed?
> > > 
> > > There are pretty good examples in the sample newsfeeds file that comes 
> > > with INN.  There are three steps:
> > > 
> > >   (1) In newsfeeds, create a "funnel master" feed exactly like the example
> > > 
> > >   (2) In newsfeeds, change each peer entry to feed articles via innfeed
> > > 
> > >   (3) In innfeed.conf, if your peer names are not DNS hostnames, add a
> > >       very simply entry for each peer mapping its name to a hostname
> > >
> > 
> > funnel master you say; hopefully I have an example.
> >  
> > > 
> > > If that and the examples aren't enough detail, feel free to ask more 
> > > questions.
> > > 
> 
> 
> Just trying this on a switch over.
> 
> I now notice something else.
> 
> It is taking about 10 to 20 minutes for INN to restart.
> 
> On the server that was replaced less than one.
> 
> I just went from ovdb to tradoverview but still slow.
> 
> I also did an fsck and usually the fsck would take 10 minutes.
> 
> The last one took 30 minutes and mostly on the news partition.
> 
> Right I am using BSD/OS 4.3.1 with 4GB RAM 2  3.0GHz Xeon and a S2753-8M
> Motherboard.  
> 
> What could be the causes for INN to act so slow?
> 
> 

Just switched over to innfeed.

Only I would like to know if innfeed is sending the articles out.

How do I find that out?

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