Recovering local articles that are not visible

[Russ Allbery]

Nick Giles <nick.giles at ontology.com> writes:

> That did seem to be the tool that kept coming up, thanks for that. The
> issue now is that we've got inn 2.3.5, which lacks tdx-util. I can't
> upgrade the application itself at the moment, but I've tried using a
> locally built copy of 2.4.6 to do the repair. I've fed it a copy of
> inn.conf that the innupgrade script fixed up, and tdx-util will now run
> and report details of some of the groups, however the -R option results
> in an empty overview file. The articles are still in the filesystem, but
> I'm a little concerned about the comment "the name of the file must
> match the article number of the article" in the tdx-util man page. The
> articles directory doesn't look like that. For instance one of the
> missing articles is in:

> articles/time-00/61/85/0510-4bba

Oh, you're not using tradspool; you're using timehash.  Unfortunately, the
selective overview rebuild only works with tradspool as the storage
method (even if you upgraded).

The blunt instrument is makehistory -O, which will do a complete overview
rebuild.  Unfortunately, expect it to take a long time.

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