BerkeleyDB, recovery attempt

[Basil Kruglov]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:43:59AM -0600, Basil Kruglov wrote:
> I renamed overview (ovdb) directory, mkdir new overview, chown to news.news
> tried to recover:
> 
> ~news/bin/makehistory -O
> makehistory: OVopen failed
> 
> After getting this error I started ovdb_init as news, tried makehistory -O
> but still getting the same error, renamed history* at ~news/db directory,
> created new history* files, makehistory -O gives the same error..

Opps.. figured this one out -
the trick is to run makehistory under user news and have ovdb_init running

-Basil