Transferring Messages from one News Server to Another.

Nigel Telles ntelles at metrohm.co.uk
Thu Feb 6 16:52:57 UTC 2003


Thanks for the advice but I have already tried that as I am following
INN 2.x FAQINN 2.x FAQ Section 6.4 which already mentions that setting 

Nigel Telles
ntelles at metrohm.co.uk


On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Nigel Telles wrote:

> I copied active file from old newsserver to new newsserver ( I was 
> under the miss-apprehension the groups would automatically be 
> generated )

You might wish to reset the article numbers when you do this.  If you
want to keep the article numbers, enable xrefslaving temporarily while
feeding the articles over.


> 	I have tried entering ctlinnd param c 0 and changing the
parameter in 
> inn.conf (artcutoff to 0 - then restarting news server )

Once the articles are rejected once due to being too old, they will be 
refused on any further attempts.  You need to reset history in order to 
try again.



-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org



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