can't renumber

[Russ Allbery]

Matt Schillinger <mschilli at vss.fsi.com> writes:

> The line in the active file pertaining to the vital.sys newsgroup is:

> vital.sys 258 9 y

The active file at some point got corrupted (perhaps a group was added by
hand somehow?).  That line should read:

    vital.sys 0000000258 0000000009 y

The active file is modified in place, so there need to be zero-padded
digits sufficient to update the counts.

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