active file under new INN?

[Russ Allbery]

Barry Bouwsma <newsb'stard at free-N0RP.netSCUM.dk> writes:

> innd fell over this morning during expire sometime:
> Aug  3 04:31:07 news02.inet.tele.dk innd: SERVER bad_active 3dfx.glide.linux 000
> 0001338 0000000983 n 3dfx.linux.apps.games 0000000106 00......

> inncheck doesn't report any problems with the active file.  Looks
> okay to me too.

> What I had done much earlier in the day was to pause INN 2.3-BETA,
> append a buncha newsfroups at the end, reload active, then go again.  No
> complaints there.  Don't recall it being a problem if I remember to
> reload active in the past either.  I'm pretty sure I restarted innd
> after this addition too.

> Can one no longer do this?  Or is this just something that I'll never
> see again?

I *think* this should have just been something that you'll never see
again; was I right?  :)

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