Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Major blunder with active file -- how to recover?
Message-ID: <1991May30.152312.24955@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 15:23:12 GMT
References: <1991May30.103323.3103@actrix.gen.nz>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May30.103323.3103@actrix.gen.nz> paul@actrix.gen.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
>I accidentally blew away my active file...
>This means that the second field, showing the highest article
>number, is not correct for nearly all news groups.
>Please -- how can I update this to reflect what's actually on disk?

By the looks of your message ID, you're running C News.  The program you
want is "recovact", written up (for no terribly good reason) in the
expire(8) manpage.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry