Re: Suddenly leafnode isn't downloading any new articles

On 08/03/2023 01:16, Ken Robinson via leafnode-list wrote:
> The group is very active. The problem was that the file with the group's
> name got deleted from the interesting.groups directory. I'm not sure how
> that happened. Once I put it back in, everything started working again. I
> think I will put a cron job in that will check to make sure that the file
> is still there and re-create it if it disappears again.
> 
If no one accesses a newsfroup for timeout_long days it is removed from 
the active list.

The default setting for "timeout_long" in 1.12.0 is 7 days:
	timeout_long = 7
		By default, a group that has not  been  read  at  all
		is being fetched  for seven days before being
		unsubscribed. This interval can be changed by setting
		timeout_long to a different value.

I set it to 30, ages ago, and I have a script that "touch"es things that 
are in .newsrc files in .../interesting.groups to keep them alive.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)