bernhold@red8.qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) (02/20/91)
We're about to switch our users from one news server to another. Of course the article numbers are out of sync, so everyone's .newsrc files will have to be "fixed" somehow. The simplest thing from my point of view, is of course to just say noone's read anything and let the users catchup in the newsgroups they read. We're not a real big news site, so this is not _real_ bad, but I'd like to find a better solution if possible. I seem to recall a similar discussion & someone posting a program/script to "adjust" article numbers in the .newsrc. If anyone has such a tool, or can point me towards it, I (and my users!) would be greatful! Thanks in advance. -- David Bernholdt bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu Quantum Theory Project bernhold@ufpine.bitnet University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 904/392 6365
cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) (02/22/91)
In article <27017@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> bernhold@red8.qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes: >We're about to switch our users from one news server to another. Of >course the article numbers are out of sync, so everyone's .newsrc >files will have to be "fixed" somehow. This answer assumes you are installing a new system, not moving to an existing one. It also doesn't cover 'emergencies'. Sorry if this is of no use. The way we did it was as follows: 1) Set up and test your new machine and its links to the old one. 2) Stop news unbatching on the old machine. 3) Take a copy of /usr/spool/news and active from the old machine to new. 4) Build the history on the new machine. 5) Make your users use the new machine, whether physically, nfs or nntp. 6) Start unbatching on the old machine and feed all articles to the new. 7) Gradually move your feeds to the new machine. 8) Burn the old machine. :-) It took us a few days to do this (though not exclusively) and none of our users even noticed (as far as I know). -- \/ato. Ian Dickinson. / /// Send your dollars, Homeboy, \\\ \ /'\ /`\ vato@warwick.ac.uk ( ((( I'm a Pink Foetus for "Bob" ))) ) /^^^\/^^^\ gdd046@cck.cov.ac.uk \ \\`------X.500-Check-me-out-----'// / /TWIN/TEATS\ @c=GB@o=University of Warwick@ou=Computing Services@cn=Ian Dickinson / \