Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com!del From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cnews artnum in active file Message-ID: <1990Aug17.054253.25740@mlb.semi.harris.com> Date: 17 Aug 90 05:42:53 GMT References: <1990Aug16.185023.26200@squirrel.mh.nl> <1990Aug17.034849.17801@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@mlb.semi.harris.com Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL Lines: 18 In article <1990Aug17.034849.17801@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1990Aug16.185023.26200@squirrel.mh.nl> Johan Vromans writes: >>I have noted that in the active file, the lower article number always >>remains 1. Is this normal? > >This is normal unless you have a crontab entry that occasionally runs >upact (more portable) or updatemin (rather faster). This is currently >an ill-documented option; it will probably become standard when I get >around to changing it. We currently run updatemin weekly, for the benefit >of some stupid reader software. (The lower number is basically an >inadequate kludge that smarter software should never look at, but there >is a lot of dumb software in the world, sigh...) Updatemin is fast enough that we run it daily, right after expire. -- Don "Truck" Lewis Harris Semiconductor Internet: del@mlb.semi.harris.com PO Box 883 MS 62A-028 Phone: (407) 729-5205 Melbourne, FL 32901