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From: Rick <nobody@home.invalid>
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Subject: Re: on leafnode and multiple servers
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:37:11 +0000
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Ethan Carter wrote:

>I use Leafnode successfully with the great Eternal September USENET
>service.  I also have access to other NNTP servers, which I also would
>like to cache with leafnode.  I set them up in Leafnode configuration,
>but I see that Leafnode tries to download from these new servers the
>same groups that it downloads from Eternal September.  But I wish it
>would look for other, different groups.  Is that possible with Leafnode?
>
>I don't know how to use Leafnode very well.  I discovered the directory
>
>  /var/spool/news/interesting.groups
>
>and touched files there with the names of the groups I'm interested in
>Eternal September.  

Don't think this is the "approved" way to configure leafnode to pull the
newsgroups you want to read.  But, if it works, why not?

>Apparently, nothing there says that these are
>relative to Eternal September, so I don't know how I'd specify a
>different set of groups to be downloaded from other servers.

What you want to do is use /etc/leafnode/config to configure multiple
news servers and the newsgroups you want to pull from each server. 

Copy config.example to config and start editing/adding below this
section - 
##################################
## 			                                            ##
## SERVER declarations go below this line                  ##
##                                        			      ##
##################################

specifically this part for each server
## This shows how a server is configured that only has specific news
## groups. Note that this parameter is a PCRE, not a wildmat! See
## pcre(3) or pcre(7), depending on your PCRE version.
# server = cnews.corel.com
# only_groups_pcre = corel\.