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  • Re: FAQ suggestions

    From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to Nigel Reed on Mon Jan 22 10:58:26 2024
    Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> writes:

    Maybe add "How to remove a peer". The reason I mention this is that I
    found two files in spool/indeed

    news@www:~/spool/innfeed$ ls -lh alphanet.ch.*
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 1.2M Sep 23 00:01 alphanet.ch.input
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 187M Nov 8 20:25 alphanet.ch.output

    I assume that these can be deleted without any issues but if that was
    in a faq, I wouldn't need to check :)

    It is correct that you can just delete those files. They are the backlog
    for that peer (the articles you've tried to send them but that haven't
    gone through).

    --
    Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

    Please post questions rather than mailing me directly.
    <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 22 12:41:57 2024
    More links to the FAQ from other pages, such as https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/
    to make it easier to find.


    Maybe add "How to remove a peer". The reason I mention this is that I
    found two files in spool/indeed

    news@www:~/spool/innfeed$ ls -lh alphanet.ch.*
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 1.2M Sep 23 00:01 alphanet.ch.input
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 187M Nov 8 20:25 alphanet.ch.output


    I assume that these can be deleted without any issues but if that was
    in a faq, I wouldn't need to check :)



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  • From yamo'@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 23 10:47:36 2024
    Hi,
    Russ Allbery a tapoté :

    It is correct that you can just delete those files. They are the backlog
    for that peer (the articles you've tried to send them but that haven't
    gone through).

    Thanks!

    I have also a lot of old files in :

    /var/spool/news/incoming/tmp

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    Stéphane

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to yamo' on Tue Jan 23 12:38:55 2024
    On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:47:36 +0100
    yamo' <yamo@beurdin.invalid> wrote:

    Hi,
    Russ Allbery a tapoté :

    It is correct that you can just delete those files. They are the
    backlog for that peer (the articles you've tried to send them but
    that haven't gone through).

    Thanks!

    I have also a lot of old files in :

    /var/spool/news/incoming/tmp


    Interesting. I didn't see Russ's reply come through but I got your
    follow up. Must investigate.

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to Nigel Reed on Tue Jan 23 13:33:18 2024
    On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:38:55 -0600
    Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:47:36 +0100
    yamo' <yamo@beurdin.invalid> wrote:

    Hi,
    Russ Allbery a tapoté :

    It is correct that you can just delete those files. They are the
    backlog for that peer (the articles you've tried to send them but
    that haven't gone through).

    Thanks!

    I have also a lot of old files in :

    /var/spool/news/incoming/tmp


    Interesting. I didn't see Russ's reply come through but I got your
    follow up. Must investigate.


    I found a whole bunch of Russ's posts in the emp.phr log for some
    reason. I see that news.software.nntp is in the cleanfeed flood groups
    so I removed that. I wonder how many other articles I've lost :/

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