[Pan-users] leafnode interesting.groups placeholder

[Thufir]

For some reason, I have to manually touch foo.bar in /var/spool/news/
interesting.groups/ as user news.

I've tried variations of restarting pan, fetchnews, even moving the .pan2 
directory and starting fresh.  Posting and reading works fine through 
leafnode.  The only thing which doesn't work is subscribing to previously 
unsubscribed groups.

There's supposed to be a message from leafnode registering interest in a 
group.  Using telnet, I can generate that message:


address@hidden:~$ 
address@hidden:~$ telnet localhost nntp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.11.8 running at localhost (my fqdn: 
dur.bounceme.net)
group alt.test
211 1 1 1 alt.test group selected (pseudo article)
next
421 There is no next article
next
421 There is no next article
article
220 1 <leafnode:placeholder:address@hidden> article retrieved 
- text follows
Path: dur.bounceme.net
Newsgroups: alt.test
From: Leafnode <address@hidden>
Subject: Leafnode placeholder for group alt.test
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:16:44 -0700
Message-ID: <leafnode:placeholder:address@hidden>

This server is running leafnode, which is a dynamic NNTP proxy.
This means that it does not retrieve newsgroups unless someone is
actively reading them.

If you do an operation on a group - such as reading an article,
looking at the group table of contents or similar, then leafnode
will go and fetch articles from that group when it next updates.

Since you have read this dummy article, leafnode will retrieve
the newsgroup alt.test when fetchnews is run
the next time. If you'll look into this group a little later, you
will see real articles.

If you see articles in groups you do not read, that is almost
always because of cross-posting.  These articles do not occupy any
more space - they are hard-linked into each newsgroup directory.

If you do not understand this, please talk to your newsmaster.

Leafnode can be found at
        http://www.leafnode.org/

.
quit
205 Always happy to serve!
Connection closed by foreign host.
address@hidden:~$ 
address@hidden:~$ 


and then, lo and behold, there's "alt.test" in interesting.groups (when 
it wasn't before) -- but why doesn't pan do that?  Now, where do I get 
ahold of this so called newsmaster, also?




thanks,

Thufir