artices via number but not message-id

[Simon Lyall]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Scumley O'Fluffigan wrote:
> > What happened was that I had a server crash a few days ago and about 2/3s
> > of articles lost their overviews. Since then it would appear that I am
> > unable to get any articles via "article <message-id>" commands but
> > "article number" works. grephistory also fails.
> 
> This has nothing to do with overviews, it's purely a history problem.
> 
> Try this:  Pause or throttle your swerver, and run `makedbz' or
> `makehistory -r' using a parameter of `-s ####' where the number
> you use is the largest of all the numbers in the second line of
> your history.dir file.  (Or 2/3 of the large number in the first
> line, whichever is largest)
> 
> Then move the history.n.* files into place, reload history and go.
> 
> Does `grephistory' work after this?  If do, then retrieving
> articles by message ID should work too.

That fixed the problem great, looks like my old history file had a bug
around line 1 million. Appears that my RAID vendor shipped me a batch of
dodgy drives and the odd disk error is making holes in files.

I'll be spending the rest of the week swapping drives and watching the
raidset rebuild I guess.

Thanks heap sto various people on this list for help with my problems,
I've found 2.3 great once it is setup (and doesn't have hardware bugs). I
replaced my news router with INN (from diablo) and it's now ticking over
at a nice 140GB/day, just trying to get the other boxes up to the same
level.

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