Overviews Lost

[Kostas Lykourgiotis]

hi all,

Two months ago I installed an inn 2.3.2 on one of my client's server and 
now I have a rather head-breaking problem with the the overview files. 
It seems that the overviews of the articles are removed two weeks after 
the posting. The articles remain in the articles spool area.

Here is the configuration that I use:

Version: 2.3.2
inn.conf:
    ovmethod:               tradindexed
    # Article Storage
    cnfscheckfudgesize:     0
    enableoverview:         true
    groupbaseexpiry:        true
    mergetogroups:          false
    overcachesize:          15
    ovgrouppat:
    storeonxref:            false
    useoverchan:            false
    wireformat:             false
    xrefslave:              false

expire.ctl:
    /remember/:14
    *:A:never:never:never


*** No ``Expire:'' Header has been found in the articles.

The "remember" setting is the most suspicious one, but, according to the 
relevant documentation, since never:never:never is in use, no articles 
or overviews must expire. (Is this correct?)


Now, although all articles (Numbers 1 - 26) still exist in the articles 
spool area, the overview file of this Newsgroup starts from the article 
with number 21.
spool/overview/e/e/e/u/europa.enterprise.employment.uk.DAT:

21      Acorn Trust brochure (PDF)      Giorgos Magdalinos 
<gmag at inovart.com>       Sat, 9 Nov 2002 16:58:49 +0000 (UTC)    
<aqjes9$hg5$1 at circa.inovart.com>              200612  2566    Xref: 
circa.inovart.gr europa.enterprise.employment.uk:21
22 ...
23 ...
24 ...
25 ...
26 ...





Now allow me two questions:

1) Do you have any idea why INN expires the overviews of those articles 
and how can I avoid this? Or at least can you indicate where can I find 
more info (i.e log files) ?

2) How can I take my old overviews, which are valuable to me, back ?
Remember that the articles are still in place.
I've tried to use the overchan program but I it seems that in order to 
construct the lines it needs as input, I must combine data stored in the 
history file and in the corresponding article. I really have no evidence 
of how to do this.
Is there any macro or utility out there that can restore the overview of 
articles ?



Thanks for your time,
Kostas