I'm new to INN Server throttled

[Russ Allbery]

Scott Corn <a02swc1 at wpo.cso.niu.edu> writes:

> I've inherited our INN 1.7.2 news server and have trashed the active
> file or so it seems. Someone asked to update our active file with a new
> newsgroup so last night I paused the server and edited the file. This
> morning newsgroup names were showing up as
> "rec.games.pinball000000035190" instead of "rec.games.pinball" .  It
> appears articles were being accepted all night long. Is it better to
> have used ctlinnd newgroup to add the new newsgroup?

Yes; you don't ever want to edit the file by hand unless you run ctlinnd
reload active afterwards.  Otherwise, odd things can happen.

> Today I shutdown INN and copied active.old over the active file and
> started the server again. The server throttled with errors like the
> following:

> Apr  7 08:30:44 husk innd: SERVER cant symlink
> /var/news/spool/articles/comp/lang/java/programmer/191052 and
> comp/os/msdos/programmer/19064 File exists

ctlinnd renumber '' should fix everything up again.

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