Bug 68875

Summary:	New ebuild: net-news/touch_newsgroup
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	CJ Kucera <pez>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	eradicator, net-news
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	touch_newsgroup-0.3.ebuild touch_newsgroup.cron subscribed.conf

Description CJ Kucera 2004-10-25 11:46:53 UTC

touch_newsgroup is a relatively small Perl script used to periodically touch newsgroups on locally-running news servers (the author mentions Leafnode in particular, and that's what I'm running myself, but it'd work for anything really) so that the groups don't get unsubscribed by the server if they're infrequently updated.  Will affix the ebuild and support files momentarily

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 CJ Kucera 2004-10-25 11:48:38 UTC

Created attachment 42572 [details]
touch_newsgroup-0.3.ebuild

Here's the ebuild itself, nothing out of the ordinary.	Adds a few files from
${FILESDIR} so that it can be run via cron easily.

Comment 2 CJ Kucera 2004-10-25 11:49:02 UTC

Created attachment 42573 [details]
touch_newsgroup.cron

Here's the file that goes in /etc/cron.daily

Comment 3 CJ Kucera 2004-10-25 11:49:36 UTC

Created attachment 42574 [details]
subscribed.conf

... and here's a conf file which goes in /etc/touch_newsgroups which contains
the names of the groups to touch.

Comment 4 Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev

2013-01-20 14:49:26 UTC

Upstream website is dead. It looks like net-nntp/leafnode provides a similar script.