news.software.readers

On 2007-09-27, Blinky the Shark < @ > wrote:
> Is there a way to get leafnode to upload a post when I send it from my
> client, so it doesn't have to wait until the next leafnode cron job?

I run a script to fetch news every 10 min in the hours I'm n ormally at
home, for the text-only groups. Any binary groups are fetched at night, when
my ISP counts half volumes.


The script tests if there is a outgoing post waiting. If there is, it makes
a post-only run and sleeps a few secs before fetching the news.

That way, I get my own posts back in the same cron job.


#! /bin/bash
if [ `ls "/var/spool/news/ /" | wc -l` -ne 0 ]; then
# Have a post-only run
sudo -u news /usr/sbin/fetchnews -vP
# Wait long enough for the post be digested by the upstream server
echo sleeping 10 sec
sleep 10
fi
sudo -u news env "LN_SKIP_GROUPS= *" /usr/sbin/fetchnews -v




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