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From: law@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Lindsay Wakeman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Max article number reached?
Summary: How to reset article number
Keywords: cnews
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.122242.1179@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Apr 91 12:22:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: ioe.1991Apr25.122242.1179
Organization: Institute of Education, University of London
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(Apologies to those who have seen this request - I got my distribution
wrong the first time around)

We have a problem with relaynews - it reports errors (many!) about
an article number being too large (100000) for the max field of 5 digits.
This has affected the junk newsgroup (possible overflow of articles with
bad newsgroups?)

Anyway, it wouldn't go beyond 99999. All the articles have now been expired
but /usr/lib/news/sys still has 99999 as the last article number.

How do we reset this - isn't it normally done automatically?

I don't have my original sources online so it isn't easy to check.
I'd be very grateful for any clues - Thanks.

Lindsay


PS we run Cnews 6.4 but not very up to date with patches. Could this be the 
problem?
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