C H A N G I F A Q
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Remote control | Can I Control Changi From Another Host? | Yes, but in this case you need to create ctrl_access. Check the manual about its required format. |
Chanco -u | What is the user good for? | You may allow certain users to control your server remotely. Version 1.0 and above doesn't need the user name anymore, if you run chanco on the local host - as long as you didn't set up ctrl_access. |
Expire config | I've created the expire.conf file, I'd like to know if the expiration of the articles is managed by the server or only by expire.exe. | By expire.exe only. |
Never expire group | What are the limits on expire times? Is it possible to set a newsgroup to never expire? |
There's no never-value, but you may use
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Expiring local.grep | When using groups created with local.grep the articles do not get expired. | This bug has not been fixed yet. Remember, that this is an experimental feature and should be used with care. |
Nothing expires | I was pulling my hair out over this one: expire.conf had a control Z character at the end of file, which causes the expire program to do absolutely nothing. After removing the Ctrl-Z, it works fine. | This is an ever-lasting problem. Nobody counted how often the author checked the routines to be able to deal with ctrl-z. Somehow this error is back again. |
With the expire.conf in place, I run expire -Cve4d *, but no expiration takes place. | There's a bug when using Expire with a newsgroup pattern as a command line argument. If you want Expire to process all groups, just leave out this argument. Running expire -Cve4d is sufficient. | |
Expire -U | The manual documents the "U" option as being necessary to make Expire work with previous releases and UUPC/extended. |
You need expire option -U only, if you use it with
the UUPC news system or pre 0.9p versions of Changi.
Since then Changi uses a new history index file layout, even a different name, history.idx instead of history.dir. This special option has been included, because the UUPC expire is a simple one only and the old Changi expire had been very buggy, but the whole Changi set hasn't been completed at that time. So expire 0.9p has been released, dealing with the new index but containing code to handle old history index as well. |
I missed something and accidently used Expire with option -U. What now? | If you already used option -U with Changi 1.0, you need to rebuild the index right now (option -rv) and you should never use option -U again. |
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