Re: Suddenly leafnode isn't downloading any new articles

On 2023-03-07, Gary R. Schmidt via leafnode-list wrote:

> 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.

The Debian/Ubuntu packages of leafnode used to come with a
touch_newsgroup program (Perl script, IIRC) that could be used to keep
things in 'interesting.groups' from disappearing.