Re: snget and the right time.

Wolfgang Scheicher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm quite a newbie to News and just set up sn for the internal network with 
> some local groups, and one group from the providers news server.
> 
> currently i just call snget per cronjob every view minutes to keep that extern 
> group up to date.
> 
> Is there eventually a way to sync immediately after posting? i tried to write 
> snget into /usr/sbin/POST, but it blocks the client until snget finishes. And 
> it would be cool to sync when a client connects and looks for new posts in 
> that group. (maybe except if the last snget did just run a view seconds ago)

Try sngetd... I've never used it myself, but it's supposed to do
approximately that.

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