articles only existing after expire via news.daily

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Apr 26 04:54:54 UTC 2000


Julien Oster <joster+inn at soft-research.de> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 01:49:12PM +0200, Julien Oster wrote:

> [ quoting myself ]

>> Now, if I execute "news.daily notdaily nomail" all articles exist and
>> there's no "Bad Article Number" anymore! Putting "noexpire" on the
>> command line won't give the desired effect.

> ok, I tracked it down and found out that executing ~news/bin/expire without
> any arguments is enough to make the articles existing.

> However, I don't like this behaviour. Is it normal when using the
> storage api?

No.  It sounds like overview information isn't being generated properly.
Are you running overchan (still necessary to build the indexes)?

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



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