At 03:00 AM 1/4/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Please help me move from my old dnews server (pile based) to the new one
>with completelly different pile structure.
>I want to save my local groups, but the way described in the manual
>(copying files) is not working for me, because of different pile
>structure. Is there way to transfer all of my local groups to the new
>server? I've tried to "suck" local groups from old server, but failed with
>this, because if i not "touch" the group, it is not downloaded.
Sucking is the best approach for this situation, do the following:
Add /change in dnews.conf
suck_maxold 100000
too_old 9000
(those two allow any amount of old news items that dnews would normally
ignore or block)
Then to get your local groups use
tellnews cached "group.names.*" 3
tellnews update
That will make dnews fetch those groups that you want to transfer.
ChrisP.
