History problems, probably chained

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Zenon Panoussis wrote:

> Sorry, I wasn't paying enough attention. In fact the
> active file has (highmark-lowmark = -1), i.e. the lowmarks
> are one number higher than the highmarks.
> 
> The server is running a news archive where nothing ever
> gets expired except for the occasional manual cancel.
> expire.ctl says *:A:never:never:never, so a lowmark of
> 0000000001 is what I would expect on all newsgroups.
> I'll try resetting it manually (while praying) and see.

If I correctly understand what you did earlier with makehistory, you're 
going to have to do another complete rebuild to get back in a normal sense 
of order, and you can then fix the active file at that time as I 
described.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org