Overviews Lost

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Kostas Lykourgiotis wrote:

> It seems that the overviews of the articles are removed two weeks after 
> the posting. The articles remain in the articles spool area.

That is odd.  Your configuration looks fine.


> 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?)

Correct.  Overview should never expire while the article still exists.

Can you still access the articles by Message-ID?


> 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) ?

It should be summaried in your news.daily report, which you should get via 
email.

You could give the noexpire or noexpireover flags to news.daily, but it 
would be better to really figure out the answer.


> 2) How can I take my old overviews, which are valuable to me, back ?

You can use $pathbin/makehistory (with the -O flag, check the manpage).

However, you should probably upgrade to 2.3.3 before doing this.  The 
upgrade is not complicated (check the NEWS file to make sure none of the 
changes affect you, then ./configure with the same options as before and 
run `make update`).  There have been reports of problems using makehistory 
with INN 2.3.0 through 2.3.2.



-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org