Netwin Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
The spool files should be excluded from virus scans. To get the articles back, shutdown DNews, copy the spool files back to their original location, restart, and run 'tellnews rebuild_index'. If there is a naming conflict with existing spool files, rename them so the first number in the file name is unique, but less than 9999.
- Roydon L.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We recently had a problem on a co-located server where we run DNews. The
computer was rebooting at least once a day. In their investigations, the sysops found some viruses in the spool files. This hasn't caused us any issues as we only host text groups and our users are reasonably sensible.
However, by quarantining some of the spool files, we seem to have lost the
bodies of some recent messages.
Can anyone help us in getting those messages reloaded from our feeds. We
have one iHave and another newsreader type feed.
Thanks in advance.
David
This has just happened again. Firstly, thanks for the response but the files he deleted have been cleared off as he thought they were cause virus issues. Now we have a further 10 messages that are showing as expired between yesterday afternoon and this morning, although a later message is showing OK. What I would really like to do is to tell the server to reload from is suck feed. Is that possible?
Hi,
You can get old messages from suck feeds by lowering the article counters for the group -
tellnews getold group.name 1000
The problem with this is, it will only get messages it doesn't already know about, or that have passed the 'remember' period in dnews.conf.
To make DNews forget about messages it has seen but not kept, you need to use 'tellnews rebuild_index', the act of doing so may reveal the messages anyway (If this is a case of index corruption).
To see if DNews has the message, you can grep the spool looking for the message-id. If found, ensure there is no .del file corresponding to that spool file (The first number in the file name). If this file exists, it may have been marked as delete using tellnews killitem or similar, in which case you need to delete the .del file before rebuild_index.
- Roydon L.
