Re: power loss while receiving news

Hi Jesse,

BTW: Is there another way to remove entries from history except manually
deleting them?

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What I usually do to achieve that is:
1- setting /remember/ to 0 in expire.ctl;
2- running the expire process ("news.daily notdaily" called with the
same parameters as in crontab);
3- setting /remember/ to its previous value (11 by default).
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I'm not aware of another way to totally remove entries from the history
file (it somehow needs rebuilding).  If you see another method with the
current programs shipped with INN, I would be glad to hear.

 Can you not remove the lines from "history" and then run makedbz?

Wolfgang asked for a way other than a manual deletion.  Yes, editing the history file by hand and then running "makedbz" or "makehistory -O" will also work.  It is just more error-prone, and naturally one has to shutdown INN before any manual edition of the history file.
I would recommend to also rebuild the overview data ("makehistory -O") and not only the dbz files ("makedbz") as otherwise it will be inconsistent.  I think duplicated Message-IDs in the overview database won't prevent the articles from being accepted as our current overview methods work by article numbers, and not by Message-IDs, but better be consistent.
Running "news.daily notdaily" will do all of that for you.
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Julien ÉLIE
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