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From: starr@hriso.ATT.COM (Michael L. Starr)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: How to rebuild active with C-news?
Message-ID: <1990Feb13.141726.28155@hriso.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 14:17:26 GMT
Reply-To: starr@hriso.ATT.COM (Michael L. Starr)
Organization: AT&T HRISO, Morristown, NJ
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Yesterday, we lost the disk that contained our /usr/lib/news partition.
I initially thought "no problem", mounted the backup disk, and rebuilt
history.  Unfortunately, I can find no way to rebuild the active file
to reflect the articles and newsgroups that were received since the
last backup.  The situation now exists that we seem to have many articles
that are contained under /usr/spool/news that we can't read (using rn)
because active doesn't have numbers that high.  For future reference, is
there any way to rebuild active?

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