Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Max article number reached?
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.151833.26527@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 15:18:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.122242.1179@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr25.122242.1179@ioe.lon.ac.uk> law@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Lindsay Wakeman) writes:
>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...
>How do we reset this - isn't it normally done automatically?

No, it never has been, not by B News or C News.  There have to be enough
digis in the active-file field to begin with -- hence the leading zeros --
because it gets updated in place.  The fix is to add some more zeros on
the front manually.
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And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry