Re: DNews Annoyances

[NetWin Support]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You've heard of Windows Annoyances?  Well this tops my list of DNews Annoyances.
The server suffered a drive failure.  The drive was replaced and the backups restored. 
 DNews (Linux 5.7e1) was restarted, and it immediately trashed the 
/var/spool/dnews/xover files, causing the first article number to be incremented 
hugely.  Now all those articles exist in the ~/spool directory, but nobody can read 
them.
Ordinarily, I'd try "tellnews rebuild_index" but I've been there and done that and it 
just does not work.
That's the main DNews Annoyance.
 

It sounds like the main index file was corrupted.  I would try this:
   stop dnews
   find active.mon or other old active.dat file with item numbers not 
too silly  and copy it over the current active.dat
   Then run a rebuild_index

      ChrisP.