[Sanjiyan]

03-26-03 at 08:22 PM JF1980 said this in Post #530
[B]Ok, I sort of have this working. Few questions:

1. Is there a way of making the reply address the same for any user (e.g. usenet@thrill-seekers.net) and then having a cron job checking this account every x mins and then importing any replies to threads into the newsgroup forum? Im sure someone must have done this already.

For the email you can try this, you need to edit a entry in the database, in the table: nntp_settings

The title is: Email address domain

Change the value: timelimit.yourserver.com
To what ever you need, I dont know if this works 100% but by the look of it, and what the description of it says, it should do.

As for the cron job, I do it a simple way and use MS Task scheduler, just point it to iexplorer.exe (or what ever browser) like this:

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://theborg.cjb.net/borg/forums/gateway.php

The above is all one line, you can see if it works via wacking it in your RUN command line from the Start Menu (for us Windows users)

3. How regularly can I have a cron job running gateway.php without making the server slow down to a halt and being thrown out by my host (powweb)? 5mins, 10mins? If you want to see the size of the newsgroups I will be using then take a look at http://jf.myftp.org (my test box). I guess I will have about 6-7 other groups on my live site all of similar size.

Have it as often as you like, I have it every 20 minutes.

4. What is the best way to stop my DB going over my 250MB server disk limit? I guess I should clear out posts once they are 30 days old or so, VBAdmin doesn't do this so I guess I will have to run a cron job, are there any good scripts already out there for this purpose?

Use the Search system


Thanks