Re: [ifmail-users] Advice on running ifnews "nicely"

[Jim H. <ifm...@ma...>]

On 14 Jan 2002, Jim Holland wrote:

> I looked at where ifnews was being run from and found (I would be lying if
> I said that I remembered!) that it was set up in the newsfeeds file, so
> edited entries such as:
>
> 	:Tp,Wf:/usr/lib/ifmail/ifnews -n -gn p98.f1.n7211.z5 <%s

I have now edited the lines so that each entry starts at a progressively
later time, by prefacing the entries with a "sleep" command, eg from:

	p1.f1.n7211.z5:!*,\
	mango.accounts,\
	mango.mail,\
	mango.members\
	:Tp,Wf:sleep 0; /usr/lib/ifmail/ifnews -n -gn p1.f1.n7211.z5 <%s

for point 1 through to:

	p2908.f1.n7211.z5:!*,\
	mango.internet\
	:Tp,Wf:sleep 873; /usr/lib/ifmail/ifnews -n -gn p2908.f1.n7211.z5 <%s

for our last user.

The value of the sleep parameter is variable, with the newsfeeds file
being generated by a script that can increment the parameter by whatever
interval is specified.

Finally the load caused by echomail is down to an acceptable level!

Regards

Jim Holland
MANGO System Administrator