Spool clean, active broken? ;-)

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Newsmaster Tiscali wrote:

> I'll be changing some hardware tonight and switch from inn 2.2.2
> to 2.3.*. Due to time saving reasons, I'll have to delete large parts
> of the existing spool. Only a handfull of hierarchies will be left.
> That should reduce the time needed for 'makehistory'.

You're upgrading on the same machine?  (If at all possible, say if you
have a new machine replacing the existing one, we recommend feeding the
articles across over the network rather than rebuilding overview.)


> If I use the existing active-file with the almost clean spool,
> will that lead to any problems? Will INN continue with numbers
> after the highwater-mark or will it start over again in the empty
> groups, so that clients probably won't see new articles?

I believe this will be fine.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org