Overview problems in inn-BETA-20000430

[Chris Martin]

In article <m3itwwsrzq.fsf_-_ at ra200004.shef.ac.uk>,
	Chris Martin <chris.martin2 at btinternet.com> wrote;

} I downloaded and installed inn-BETA-20000430 on Sunday and then
} reinitialized the overview buffer (buffindexed in use) and remade
} overview using
} 
}   /usr/local/news/bin/ctlinnd readers no 'remaking overview'
}   /usr/local/news/bin/ctlinnd throttle 'remaking overview'
}   cd ~news/spool/overview
}   rm -f /usr/local/news/db/group.index
}   dd if=/dev/zero of=OV1 bs=4k count=100 conv=notrunc
}   /usr/local/news/bin/makehistory -x -O -l 100000
}   /usr/local/news/bin/ctlinnd go 'remaking overview'
}   /usr/local/news/bin/ctlinnd readers yes 'remaking overview'

Katsuhiro> You should not remove group.index and buffer while innd is
Katsuhiro> running, since it always keeps old one.  You need to do
Katsuhiro> without removing them or to stop innd if you remove them.

Thanks for the advice, I changed it to

   /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news stop
   cd ~news/spool/overview
   rm -f /usr/local/news/db/group.index
   dd if=/dev/zero of=OV1 bs=4k count=100 conv=notrunc
   /usr/local/news/bin/makehistory -x -O -l 100000
   /usr/local/news/bin/rc.news

and, for the first time, overview is expanding and contracting as it
was designed to.

expireover is also now taking a reasonable amount of time

	expireover start Sun May  7 03:08:42 BST 2000
	expireover end Sun May  7 04:23:18 BST 2000

Thanks again for your invaluable help.