• Re: A copycat recipe for suck-feeding from Tildeverse NNTP newspool;the gotcha of incoming article backdate window

    From xwindows@xwindows@tilde.club to tilde.club on Fri Sep 25 20:54:34 2020
    There appeared to be a gotcha which I forgot to mention, while I hadn't
    run afoul of it back at my two original attempts; it can make or break
    a suck-feed attempt on a brand-new INN2 setup.

    So following is an addition to the recipe; with quoted parts to show where
    the addition was supposed to be inserted into...

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    On Fri, 25 Sep 2020, xwindows wrote:
    ## 1. The NNTP preconditions of suck-feed at the time I ran it were: ##

    - I ran `suck` from inside tilde.club, and instructing it to feed
    the newspool to `localhost`.
    - I pulled the NNTP feed from cosmic.voyage:119.
    - tilde.club accepts NNTP `IHAVE` push command from `localhost`
    without authentication.

    - tilde.club's NNTP server had an incoming-article timestamp acceptance
    window that covered the date of oldest article I was trying to push in.

    (~deepend originally set it to 365-days at the time I attempted the
    first suck-feeding; but with 1-year worth of article to push in
    back then, it was so marginal that I had to test pushing-in
    the oldest article manually via a contraption of shell script,
    `sed`, and Netcat; just to see if INN2 would actually accept the article)

    You can configure this in `inn.conf` file inside INN2's $pathetc directory
    (`/etc/news` under Fedora 32), by changing `artcutoff` configuration value
    to the desired number of backdated days to allow, then restart INNd.
    (When you're going to suck-feed, I recommend changing it to `0`
    to always-allow limitless backdating push, at least until you finished
    suck-feeding the articles; then change it back later,
    and restart INNd again)

    On Fri, 25 Sep 2020, xwindows wrote:
    - All the newsgroup were created *before* the date of oldest article
    I was trying to feed it. (*important*, but with workaround,
    see the last heading of this article)

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    Cheers for Usenet,
    ~xwindows
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