Re: on leafnode and multiple servers

Ethan Carter wrote:

I use Leafnode successfully with the great Eternal September USENET
service.  I also have access to other NNTP servers, which I also would
like to cache with leafnode.  I set them up in Leafnode configuration,
but I see that Leafnode tries to download from these new servers the
same groups that it downloads from Eternal September.  But I wish it
would look for other, different groups.  Is that possible with Leafnode?
>
I don't know how to use Leafnode very well.  I discovered the directory
>
 /var/spool/news/interesting.groups
>
and touched files there with the names of the groups I'm interested in
Eternal September. 

Don't think this is the "approved" way to configure leafnode to pull the
newsgroups you want to read.  But, if it works, why not?

Apparently, nothing there says that these are
relative to Eternal September, so I don't know how I'd specify a
different set of groups to be downloaded from other servers.

What you want to do is use /etc/leafnode/config to configure multiple
news servers and the newsgroups you want to pull from each server.

Copy config.example to config and start editing/adding below this
section -
##################################
##                                             ##
## SERVER declarations go below this line                  ##
##                                              ##
##################################

specifically this part for each server
## This shows how a server is configured that only has specific news
## groups. Note that this parameter is a PCRE, not a wildmat! See
## pcre(3) or pcre(7), depending on your PCRE version.
# server = cnews.corel.com
# only_groups_pcre = corel\.