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Date: 	Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:39:07 +0000
From: Verdell Hicks <verdell@novalink.com>
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Good Afternoon,
        Using INN and wanted to ask a few questions.  My history file
has
really gotten screwed up and I can't seem to sync things up again.  I
brought the entire sytem down ran makeactive and makehistory and still
when I connect to my news feed I still get a lot of can't symlink this
to that.  I've been through the faq and have tried the 

ctlinnd renumber ''
makehistory -buv
ctlinnd renumber ''

and it still did not work.  First my expire file reads 

/remember/:5

##  Keep for 1-10 days, allow Expires headers to work.
## for now, expire everything quickly....2 days
*:A:1:3:4
## For alt binaries, expire them in 1 day
alt.binaries.*:A:1:2:2

##  Some particular groups stay forever.
#dc.dining*:A:never:never:never
#uunet*:A:never:never:never

Yet it doesn't seem to expire the articles when my hard drive gets down
to 40%.  It stops right there.  I don't seem to get any error messages
concerning expire.  Anyhow, in order to sync things up again I read that
you can simply reformat your news spool and let INN recreate all of the
directories again as the news comes in.  What other files will I need to
delete in order to keep this process from blowing up in my face ie.
should I after formatting rerun makeactive and makehistory?  should I
actually delete my old history file and let INN start that over also
(will it?).  Does anyone have any pointers for me before I reformat and
totally screw things up more?

                                        Thanks