Re: Gnus 5.5 not displaying new articles in group

[Stefanie Teufel <s.teufel@ndh.net>]

On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 07:59:57PM +0100, Steinar Bang wrote:
> >>>>> Stefanie Teufel <s.teufel@ndh.net>:
> 
> > Nope. Perhaps I don't understanding you correctly, but my newsspool
> > resides on a normal Linux native partition and I am running leafnode 1.4.
> > as my local newsserver, because it's only a single user system. I read
> > about problems relating to leafnode, though I thought they just occured
> > with earlier versions?
> 
> If you read a newsspool maintained with leafnode, using nnspool, how
> does leafnode know what to fetch, and what to continue to fetch?

Leafnode itself is the NNTP server. It talks to your news client, and
stores readership data. Fetch (which comes with leafnode) is the NNTP
news-gatherer. It looks at the readership data Leafnode stores, and
selects what groups to pull news from.

In addition /var/spool/news contains the news articles with
subdirectories for each group. Each of these directories contain the
articles in numbered files (decimal numbers, monotonically increasing),
and the .overview-file which contains the "Subject", "From", "Date",
"Message-ID", "References", "Bytes" and "Lines" headers for each
article in the group.

Excuse my poor English, but I hope I could make myself clear.

happy weekend,

Stefanie