Articles and overview out of sync

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Rune Maagensen wrote:

> I think this has to do with a faulty overview and/or history database.
> But I don't know how to fix it. If I try to delete the
> /var/spool/news/overview and makehistory -O -f -X an error about not
> being able to open the overview db:
> 
> news.err: Oct 11 03:23:01 iss makehistory[9776]: tradindexed: could not
> create /var/spool/news/overview/group.index: No such file or directory

Did you remove the directory "overview" itself?  makehistory won't create 
that directory if it doesn't exist, so that could be the cause of the 
above problem.


> How do I tell inn to recount all articles in all groups and create
> databases based on this? There are less than 10000 articles in 20 groups
> so it should be doable.

You do want to run makehistory as above, and then as soon as you restart 
INN, issue `ctlinnd renumber ""` to fix the active file.  I think that 
will solve your strange problem with article counts.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org