For some reason, I have to manually touch foo.bar in /var/spool/news/ interesting.groups/ as user news.
I've tried variations of restarting pan, fetchnews, even moving the .pan2 directory and starting fresh. Posting and reading works fine through leafnode. The only thing which doesn't work is subscribing to previously unsubscribed groups. There's supposed to be a message from leafnode registering interest in a group. Using telnet, I can generate that message: thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ telnet localhost nntp Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.11.8 running at localhost (my fqdn: dur.bounceme.net) group alt.test 211 1 1 1 alt.test group selected (pseudo article) next 421 There is no next article next 421 There is no next article article 220 1 <leafnode:placeholder:alt.t...@dur.bounceme.net> article retrieved - text follows Path: dur.bounceme.net Newsgroups: alt.test From: Leafnode <n...@dur.bounceme.net> Subject: Leafnode placeholder for group alt.test Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:16:44 -0700 Message-ID: <leafnode:placeholder:alt.t...@dur.bounceme.net> This server is running leafnode, which is a dynamic NNTP proxy. This means that it does not retrieve newsgroups unless someone is actively reading them. If you do an operation on a group - such as reading an article, looking at the group table of contents or similar, then leafnode will go and fetch articles from that group when it next updates. Since you have read this dummy article, leafnode will retrieve the newsgroup alt.test when fetchnews is run the next time. If you'll look into this group a little later, you will see real articles. If you see articles in groups you do not read, that is almost always because of cross-posting. These articles do not occupy any more space - they are hard-linked into each newsgroup directory. If you do not understand this, please talk to your newsmaster. Leafnode can be found at http://www.leafnode.org/ . quit 205 Always happy to serve! Connection closed by foreign host. thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ and then, lo and behold, there's "alt.test" in interesting.groups (when it wasn't before) -- but why doesn't pan do that? Now, where do I get ahold of this so called newsmaster, also? thanks, Thufir _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users