Package: leafnode Version: 1.11.3.rel-2 Severity: normal I have access to two newsservers news.server1.com news.server2.com The first allows downloading of group descriptions, but the second does not. So I have a NODESC = 1 line on the second server. However, there is one group in particular, alt.special-group that is only available on server2.
I have been unable to find a way to read this group via leafnode, even though I have access to a server that offers it. For example, I tried only_groups_pcre = alt\\.special-group So far, it seems that, unless the group appears in the groupinfo file, then a placeholder directory will not be created, and it will be impossible to subscribe to (and download) that group. But the catch is that groups on "NODESC = 1" servers don't get added to the groupinfo file. Unless I've missed something, it seems that there ought to be a way to manually specify in the configuration file that a specific group is indeed available from a specific server, and it ought to be fetched from there. -- Don -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages leafnode depends on: ii debconf 1.4.51 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpcre3 5.0-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii logrotate 3.7-5 Log rotation utility ii netbase 4.21 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii tcpd 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilit -- debconf information: * leafnode/update-groups: false * leafnode/network: permanent leafnode/update-groupinfo: leafnode/tcpd: true leafnode/expireinfo: leafnode/purge: false * leafnode/server: [news.somewhere.com] leafnode/update-maxcount: leafnode/ppp: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]