Xref: utzoo news.software.b:6934 news.admin:12388 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!cudep From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: Software to help switching .newsrc from one server to another? Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 16:50:45 GMT References: <27017@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Organization: Team Limpid's Pink Boy For Bob Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: thistle In article <27017@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> bernhold@red8.qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes: >We're about to switch our users from one news server to another. Of >course the article numbers are out of sync, so everyone's .newsrc >files will have to be "fixed" somehow. This answer assumes you are installing a new system, not moving to an existing one. It also doesn't cover 'emergencies'. Sorry if this is of no use. The way we did it was as follows: 1) Set up and test your new machine and its links to the old one. 2) Stop news unbatching on the old machine. 3) Take a copy of /usr/spool/news and active from the old machine to new. 4) Build the history on the new machine. 5) Make your users use the new machine, whether physically, nfs or nntp. 6) Start unbatching on the old machine and feed all articles to the new. 7) Gradually move your feeds to the new machine. 8) Burn the old machine. :-) It took us a few days to do this (though not exclusively) and none of our users even noticed (as far as I know). -- \/ato. Ian Dickinson. / /// Send your dollars, Homeboy, \\\ \ /'\ /`\ vato@warwick.ac.uk ( ((( I'm a Pink Foetus for "Bob" ))) ) /^^^\/^^^\ gdd046@cck.cov.ac.uk \ \\`------X.500-Check-me-out-----'// / /TWIN/TEATS\ @c=GB@o=University of Warwick@ou=Computing Services@cn=Ian Dickinson / \