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From: Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server??
Date: 16 Oct 1996 14:03:58 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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Message-ID: <542q0e$s87@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>
References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <53u1ic$61i@flash.noc.best.net> <53ucuj$8qh@twwells.com> <540dos$asu@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu>
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In article <540dos$asu@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu>,
Chris Fanning <cfanning@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> could turn synced writes on and off. I don't get a continuous feed, it runs
> nightly. It would be nice to turn them off, get my articles, and then turn
> synced writes back on.
Did you tried the following:
mount -u -o async /news
[...get articles...]
[...run expire...]
mount -u -o sync /news
You need 2.1.0 or later for the async flag. The async mode is more
aggressive in 2.2-CURRENT.
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