INN and overview (recovering from crash)

[Ilya Etingof]

It might help.

BTW, I've got a tool that does basically the same as makehistory does when
invoked with -S -I -O switches. My tool either retrieves articles
by history token or scans articles in news spool then parses out
Xref: field from article header then generates new uniover, overview,
and history records.

The tool is rather raw but it worked for me so far.

It's available at ftp://ftp.glas.net/users/ilya/tools/inn/ov/makeoverview.c

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Alexandre CHERIF wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> my overview is apparently broken, when trying to get the list of new message
> for a group, random characters arrive. example, in the subject i got part of
> the Path: of news newsgoup: line :(
> 
> i've done some research to know how to get a fixed overview and after some hours 
> i found this:
> 
> 
> PREFIX/bin/makehistory -S -O -I PREFIX/tmp/list.temp -f temp.history
> and
> sort -t' ' +1 -2 PREFIX/tmp/temp.history | PREFIX/bin/expireindex -a -o -z  
> 
> does anyone kown if this might work to solve my problem ? or have a better solution ?
> and since the makehistory create a new history file (temp.history) must i move it over the old 
> history file ???
> 
> i'm using cnfs and my overview is the old one (directories)
> 
> 
> Regards
> ----
> Alexandre
>