Preface

This section describes in brief some CLI commands. Please read the general notes on the command line interface before continuing.

Refreshing newsfeeds with a cron job

Normally The Arsse has a systemd service which checks newsfeeds for updates and processes them into its database for the user. If for whatever reason this is not practical a cron job may be used instead.

Keeping newsfeeds updated with cron is not difficult. Simply run the following command:

sudo crontab -u arsse -e

And add a line such as this one:

*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/arsse refresh-all

Thereafter The Arsse’s will be scheduled to check newsfeeds every two minutes. Consult the manual pages for the crontab format and command for details.

How often newsfeeds are fetched

Though by default The Arsse will wake up every two minutes, newsfeeds are not actually downloaded so frequently. Instead, each newsfeed is assigned a time at which it should next be fetched, and once that time is reached a conditional request is made. The interval between requests for a particular newsfeed can vary from 15 minutes to 24 hours based on multiple factors such as:

• The length of time since the newsfeed last changed
• The interval between publishing of articles in the newsfeed
• Whether the last fetch or last several fetches resulted in error

As a general rule, newsfeeds which change frequently are checked frequently, and those which change seldom are fetched at most daily.