Re: Right, I'm at it again...new usenet server

On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 22:18:28 +0200
Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:

Hi Nigel,
 

I'm going to rename my old server to "oldnewsfeed" and use the
following to feed all the articles from my existing server to the
new server...
 
on the old server
 
  cd /news/etc 

Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I misread that bit.

 
If your history file is in /news/etc, that will be fine.  (It is
usually in something like /news/db or /var/lib/news).
OK with the rest.  Follow well the 6.4 subject entry in the FAQ
(xrefslave, etc.).

There's only me using the server for now so xrefs isn't going to be a
problem. I can just delete all the articles in my newsreader and
refresh.

 

I'll configure incoming.conf newsfeeds and innfeed.conf so that I'm
not feeding any other servers and that oldnewsfeed is the only
server able to send to that host.
 
Then I'll add my peers back in. Is that it? Am I safe? 

 
Seems good.

You sound more confident than I am :)

 

Am I going to send everything off to my peers? 

 
No you aren't.

See above!

Ok. Going to start the transfer going so wish me luck.



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