overview terminology
Russell S. Ireland
irelandr at btv.ibm.com
Fri Jun 14 19:31:12 UTC 2002
I am somewhat confused by some descriptions used in a few of the inn man pages.
"MAKEDBZ(8)
Makedbz rebuilds dbz(3) database."
So what is the actual datbase? The history file? The overview directory
structure?
"makehistory(8)
It can also be used to rebuild the overview
database. Note that the dbz(3) indexes for the history
file are rebuilt by makedbz(8), not by makehistory as in
earlier versions of INN."
So if I have placed a tarball of another server's articles on my new server,
do I need to run makedbz AND makehistory to get a current history and
overview? Or is makehistory -O -F -f history.n sufficient?
"WARNING: If you're trying to rebuild the overview
database, be sure to delete or zero out the existing
database before you start for the best results. Other-
wise, you may end up with problems like out-of-order
overview entries, excessively large overview buffers, and
the like"
Again, the use of "database" seems ambiguous. I would love to heed this
warning, so what exactly do I delete or zero out? Which file(s)?
Thank-you,
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Russell S. Ireland
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