From: ADVAX::"mcnc!VM1.NoDak.EDU!dittman%SKBAT.CSC.TI.COM" "Eric Dittman" 3-MAY-1991 19:19:44.43 To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS CC: Subj: How to fix duplicate article problem Received: by ADVAX.DECnet (utk-mail11 v1.5) ; Fri, 3 May 91 19:19:22 EDT Received: from mcnc by ge-dab.GE.COM (5.61/GE-DAB 1.15) with UUCP id AA17662 for ; Fri, 3 May 91 18:15:11 -0400 Received: from VM1.NoDak.EDU by mcnc.mcnc.org (5.59/MCNC/3-21-91) id AA22616; Fri, 3 May 91 17:05:15 -0400 for ARISIA.DNET.ge.com!EVERHART Message-Id: <9105032105.AA22616@mcnc.mcnc.org> Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1MX) with BSMTP id 9163; Fri, 03 May 91 16:04:03 CDT Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 0616; Fri, 03 May 91 16:04:02 CDT Date: Fri, 3 May 91 02:10:56 GMT Reply-To: Eric Dittman Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion From: Eric Dittman Subject: How to fix duplicate article problem To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS At the end of this file is the list of changes I made to REBUILD_ITEM_FILE to allow rebuilding NEWS.ITEMS when you have the duplicate article problem that has been discussed the last couple of days. Originally I was renaming the duplicates to .DUP, but Geoff pointed out that this could rename files that shouldn't be in some cases. Also, Bob Sloane pointed out the missing parameter on one of the printf calls. The other change is very minor. Here is how I rebuilt my NEWS.ITEMS: 1) Stop anything that will want to access any of the files, including your NNTP server. You don't want the item database changing behind REBUILD_ITEM_FILE's back. 2) Define the symbol to execute REBUILD_ITEM_FILE. i.e., $ REBUILD_ITEM_FILE :== $NEWS_ROOT:REBUILD_ITEM_FILE 3) Run REBUILD_ITEM_FILE and specify a new item file. i.e., $ REBUILD_ITEM_FILE NEWS_ROOT:NEW_NEWS.ITEMS 4) While the rebuild is running (on my MicroVAX II this took a few hours), apply the patch Geoff posted yesterday to prevent the reoccurence of the problem (otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels). 5) Do a skim from NEWS (make sure you've installed the new version of NEWS!). 6) Enable the NNTP server and anything else you disabled in step 1. If you try this, let me know if you have any problems. If you have any suggestions for changes to REBUILD_ITEM_FILE that make make this faster in the future, let me know. -- Eric Dittman Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility dittman@skitzo.csc.ti.com dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com Disclaimer: I don't speak for Texas Instruments or the Component Test Facility. I don't even speak for myself. ************ File DA:[DITTMAN.REBUILD]REBUILD_ITEM_FILE.C;23 203 if (!(++item_count % 100)) printf("%d\r",item_count); 204 ****** File DA:[DITTMAN.REBUILD]REBUILD_ITEM_FILE.C;20 203 if (!(++item_count % 100)) printf("%d\r"); 204 ************ ************ File DA:[DITTMAN.REBUILD]REBUILD_ITEM_FILE.C;23 258 if (status != RMS$_DUP) { 259 printf("\tPUT returned VMS error:\n"); 260 lib$signal(status); 261 } 262 } 263 } ****** File DA:[DITTMAN.REBUILD]REBUILD_ITEM_FILE.C;20 258 printf("\tPUT returned VMS error:\n"); 259 lib$signal(status); 260 } 261 } ************