From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27281 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bud Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus with leafnode Date: 27 Nov 1999 11:33:05 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87yabjrga6.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> References: <19991126224818.A1549@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> <87hfi8rfmw.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> <19991127103117.B406@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> <8766yorom1.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> <19991127164512.B246@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164333 23737 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:38:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08115 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:35:50 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAC13627; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:35:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:34:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA24568 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:33:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from twocups.sirinet.net (postfix@twocups.sirinet.net [207.3.88.229]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08095 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:33:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by twocups.sirinet.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id 6E34CCB4F; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:33:05 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Pieter Wenk's message of "Sat, 27 Nov 1999 16:45:12 +0100" Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27281 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27281 Pieter Wenk writes: > I made a fes tests with Netscape....this is now working without > problems. With "localhost". Ther servers (I have two), are in my > /etc/news/leafnode/config. Are you actually able to read newsgroups from your leafnode installation using Netscape or mutt? If so your leafnode setup is probably fine. > > Now is it possible, that gnus will need several minutes lets > say up to a 1/2 hour in order to read ther active file...in which > is empty ? /var/spool/news/active.read has nothing inside. > > Is this normal ? Hmm. My /var/spool/news/active.read is also empty, so that is probably OK. I have seen gnus appear to hang up for indefinite periods if I try to read a newsgroup that is not yet present. That is, if I subscribe to a new group leafnode puts a dummy message on the server saying that new messages will be downloaded the next time fetchnews runs. If I catchup that group and then try to read it again before running fetchnews, or if there are no new articles in the group after I run fetchnews, gnus hangs up trying to get the non-existent new articles. Once fetchnews brings down some new articles for the group, gnus works fine. Could this be what is happening in your case? Lars, I had not thought of that as a bug. And I don't know if it would be considered a bug in gnus or in leafnode. Reading from a real news server gnus would likely never encounter a newsgroup that was totally empty. But it is kind of uncool -- perhaps there should be a graceful timeout or something? If this is worth looking into I will try to help. -- Bud Rogers