High-availability inn?

[Russ Allbery]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi at gnus.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> Yeah, or you can just sync up the active file first and then it doesn't
>> really matter.  (It only matters for going forward.)

> Yup.  I was thinking more about getting a, er, methodology in place
> for setting up (possible) mirrors.  If I could have the admins of
> these other servers first unpack a (static) tar file of configuration
> files, they would then get all the groups/articles in place via the
> feed.  It might simplify things a bit in the long run.

Oh, yeah, good point.

Have we fixed it at this point so that checkgroups can actually make the
group changes and not just send out a mail telling people what to do?  I
thought we had, but I haven't checked recently.  If so, a single
checkgroups would be easier than all the newgroups.

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