From d55a83664e4950e52d04140284d755487e1bdb91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ward Wouts <ward@wouts.nl>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 19:35:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add NICe keyword

---
 trunk/ripnews/README     |  7 +++++--
 trunk/ripnews/TODO       |  5 ++++-
 trunk/ripnews/ripnews.rb | 10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/trunk/ripnews/README b/trunk/ripnews/README
index 0f559d4..c5d56d0 100644
--- a/trunk/ripnews/README
+++ b/trunk/ripnews/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Dwarf: README,v 1.8 2003/04/28 14:36:19 ward Exp $
+# $Dwarf: README,v 1.9 2003/05/24 12:09:18 ward Exp $
 # $Source$
 
 Ripnews is a bulk downloader for usenet. It's quite flexible in terms of
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ NNTPSERVER=localhost
 CACHEDIR=/mnt/newspace/News/.ripnews_caches
 
 # PID lockfile, prevents multiple ripnews processes from running at the
-# same time
+# same time [global keyword]
 LOCKFILE=/local/newspace/News/.ripnewslock
 
 # Set the datadir, this where a subdir for each group will be made to
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ NEWSRCNAME=/ward/src/ruby/ripnews/.newsrc
 # Set the permission to create subdirs with
 PERMISSION=0700
 
+# Set the niceness of the ripnews process [global keyword]
+NICE=20
+
 # For alt.binaries.e-book.technical change from defaults...
 alt.binaries.e-book.technical {
 	# Set another include pattern
diff --git a/trunk/ripnews/TODO b/trunk/ripnews/TODO
index a0366e2..7541e50 100644
--- a/trunk/ripnews/TODO
+++ b/trunk/ripnews/TODO
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-# $Dwarf: TODO,v 1.14 2003/04/27 22:28:59 ward Exp $
+# $Dwarf: TODO,v 1.15 2003/04/28 14:36:19 ward Exp $
 # $Source$
 
 [ ] check for multiple servers (ip adresses) for each name and pick
     one that works
 [ ] support mime encoding
+[ ] support base64
+[ ] support quotedprintable
 [ ] documentation
 [ ] code cleanup
 [ ] finish intspan
@@ -18,3 +20,4 @@
     exceptions. Use buffering for each body, before writing...
 [ ] more regression tests
 [ ] update documentation
+[ ] locking so you won't run 2 ripnews processes at the same time
diff --git a/trunk/ripnews/ripnews.rb b/trunk/ripnews/ripnews.rb
index e991eda..bac1977 100755
--- a/trunk/ripnews/ripnews.rb
+++ b/trunk/ripnews/ripnews.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
 
-# $Dwarf: ripnews.rb,v 1.60 2003/05/24 12:05:57 ward Exp $
+# $Dwarf: ripnews.rb,v 1.61 2003/05/24 18:33:46 ward Exp $
 # $Source$
 
 require 'date'
@@ -256,6 +256,13 @@ def unlock
 	File.unlink(@config[group]["LOCKFILE"])
 end
 
+def renice
+	group = @config.keys[0]
+	if @config[group].has_key?("NICE")
+		Process.setpriority(Process::PRIO_PROCESS, 0, @config[group]["NICE"].to_i)
+	end
+end
+
 def get_single(subj, group)
 	print "Fetching singlepart article: #{subj}\n"
 	body = @articles.get_group_body(subj)
@@ -418,6 +425,7 @@ defaults = parse_options(defaults)
 parse_config(defaults)
 check_config
 lock
+renice
 
 @maxfilelength = get_max_file_length(@config[@config.keys[0]]["TEMPDIR"])