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By James T. Dennis, answerguy@ssc.com
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(?) More on Multi-Feed Netnews (leafnode)

Some additional comments by one of the authors/maintainers of leafnode(?).

From The Answer Guy on Mon, 14 Dec 1998

(?) Jim,
I have a question in the "Answer Guy's" inbox regarding multi-feed leaf netnews. I don't remember which package my querent was using (leafnode, suck?, ???) but his question regarded whether it's possible using any of these packages to download news from multiple sites and upload/ feed them back selectively).

(!) It is possible with suck/INN, of course. (Everything is possible with this combination, I suppose :-).
It is also possible with leafnode, starting from 1.7.
The config file should look like this:
server = news.a.org
supplement = news.b.com
expire = 14			# expire messages after that many days
create_all_links = no		# optional, saves disk space
Leafnode should be able to figure out everything else on its own.
If you need usernames and passwords for servers, it becomes a bit more complicated, but leafnode can handle this as well:
server = news.a.org
username = user_at_a
password = password_at_a
supplement = news.b.com
username = user_at_b
password = password_at_b
expire = 14
create_all_links = no
HTH, - --Cornelius.
/* Cornelius Krasel, U Wuerzburg, Dept. of Pharmacology, Versbacher Str. 9 */


Copyright © 1999, James T. Dennis
Published in The Linux Gazette Issue 36 January 1999


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