Re: snget and the right time.

On Thursday 02 October 2003 23:25, Patrik RÃ¥dman wrote:
> 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.

i now did try with sngetd

when running sngetd and putting a echo into /usr/sbin/POST to write the 
newsgroup name to .fifo, it does sync when doing one post.
but when echoing a 2nd time to .fifo, i get a
"sngetd:Already fetched/fetching for <newsgroup>", and does not sync any more.
just keeps telling the same error over and over again for each post.

all sngetd docu i could find was the manpage, which doesn't really tell me 
much about what to do now. So, how do i correctly use sngetd?

Worf