At 04:54 PM 6/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>hi,
>
>a few days ago i had a filesytem corruption and the active.dat was deleted.
>I did find a backup of the local newsgroups but unfortunatly the
>active.mon was
>to old/new and the newsgroups where not in that file. so my question is
>how can i
>"feed" those groups back into dnews having the db_*.itm file of the
>respective groups.
Ok, first, and this is critical, upgrade to dnews 5.6a2 or later
Then recreate the missing groups:
tellnews newgroup missing.group.name y
tellnews newgroup missing.group.name2 y
Then issue a
tellnews rebuild_piles
ChrisP.
