inn2 - cant store article: File exists / rebuild databases

[Marcus Schopen]

Marcus Schopen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after a blackout of my privat linux box inn2 shows the following entries 
> in its log, if posting a message:
> 
>    innd: SERVER cant store article: File exists
> 
> To find a solution, I changed /var/lib/news/active for each group to 
> highest und lowest article id. After a restart of inn2 I everything was 
> fine again.
> 
> Problem: After getting the "Daily Usenet report" at night, I could only 
> see articles of the last 3 month in my newsclient in the next morning. 
> In the configuration I told inn2 to keep all articles of the last 6 
> month. All articles of the last 6 month are still in 
> /var/spool/news/articles directory, but not shown in the client.
> 
> What do I have to do to make a clean, new rebuild of all inn2's internal 
> databases/history files etc., so I can see all articles again? I can't 
> find a script for that purpose on Debian.
> 
> System: Debian woody
> INN2 Version: 2.3.2

Andreas Metzler posted the folling nice working lines to me on the 
German Debian list:

 > as user root: invoke-rc.d inn2 stop
 > then "su - news" to change to user news
 > --------
 > cd /var/lib/news/ \
 >  && time makehistory -b -O -f history.n \
 >  && awk 'NF == 2 { print }' < history >> history.n \
 >  && makedbz -s `wc -l < history` -f history.n
 > mv  history.n history
 > mv history.n.dir  history.dir
 > mv history.n.hash history.hash
 > mv history.n.index history.index
 > --------
 > as user root: "invoke-rc.d inn2 start"
 > as user news: ctlinnd renumber ''

Cheers,
Marcus

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