At 10:16 PM 6/22/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello, I need to provide my server admin with information about combining
>two DNEWS Servers into one; ie. shut down one server and use the other
>exclusivly. I also need information about how to combine threads, and
>rename them.
>
>Could someone please point me in the right direction?
Ok the easiest way to combine the news groups is to suck the newsgroups
from one to the other.
On the one that will keep running add to dnews.conf
nntp_feeder other.news.server
too_old 9000
suck_maxold 90000
Then type in:
Tellnews reload
tellnews getgroups
(wait 2 minutes)
tellnews cached "*" 1
tellnews update
With both fingers crossed that will get all the groups and messages onto
one system.
Combining and renaming threads is tricky, you can copy a group like this:
tellnews copy_group old.name new.group.name
then delete the old group after checking the newgroup contains what you expect.
Also you can move threads around a bit using these commands:
tellnews delete_thread group.name "<Message@id>"
tellnews copy_thread group.name.from group.name.to "<Message@id>"
tellnews move_thread group.name.from group.name.to "<Message@id>"
tellnews delete_subject group.name "Text from subject"
tellnews copy_subject group.name.from group.name.to "Text from subject"
tellnews move_subject group.name.from group.name.to "Text from subject"
ChrisP.
