Cleaning up INN2.2.2 due to duplicate messages?

[Russ Allbery]

Edwin <edwin.yau at rdel.co.uk> writes:

> Although the expired messages have gone I don't think all the headers
> have actually been deleted.  For example, my newsreader tries to
> download 7000 headers from uk.media.dvd but it only gets around 500
> actual headers as the rest don't exist anymore.  I tried this one three
> different newsreaders and all did the same thing.

Does ctlinnd lowmark help with this?  That should have been run by
news.daily and that's what it does; resets the low article mark in all
newsgroups.

> This is why I was asking about makeactive as I thought it might clear up
> the headers issue?  I did try running it but nothing happened (using
> makeactive -m >active.new ).  What should I be doing and what is the
> correct command/syntax to use?

You basically never want to use makeactive; it never worked particularly
well.  INN should be able to recover without this.  (makeactive was
orginally for attempting to recover an active file from nothing but an
article spool, and often created phantom newsgroups that didn't actually
exist.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>