Long story short, had a power cut. Not usually a headache but the rocket scientist controller on duty didn't get the generator started before the UPS batteries died. :-(
So I walk in to find the server powered down. When I powered it back up, dnews spins up okay, all the configs are intact...First problem, half my groups don't "exist" any more if I do a 'groups download' with a newsreader. Guessing active.dat got corrupted, I nuked it and did a getgroups, merged in the text file I have of the groups off the other server (I suck from two), and all the groups are now there. But they're all empty! Look in the spool directory, it's all there. 150+ Gb of pile files. I tried a rebuild_history <yawn!>, but the posts still don't show up. I'm thinking rebuild_history was a bad guess. :-) What am I missing? I was considering doing a rebuild_piles AND a rebuild_index AND a rebuild_history. <triple yawn>. Can one say sledgehammer/walnut? Is there an easier way. What's all most likely corrupted/missing after a power failure? I doubt this will be my last, need to fix this problem AND be prepared for the next time... Regards Bob
