NAME¶
makeactive - tool to recover Usenet active file.
SYNOPSIS¶
makeactive [
-m ] [
-o ]
DESCRIPTION¶
Makeactive invokes
find(1) to get a list of all directories in the
news spool tree,
/var/spool/news. It discards directories named
lost+found as well as those that have a period in them. It scans all
other directories for all-numeric filenames and determines the highest and
lowest number. The program's output is a set of
active(5) file lines.
Because there is no way to know if a group is moderated or disabled, the
fourth field of all entries will be
y. Also, mid-level directories that
aren't newsgroups will also created as newsgroups with no entries (for
example, there is a ``comp.sources.unix'' group, but no ``comp.sources'').
OPTIONS¶
- -m
- If the ``-m'' flag is given, then makeactive will attempt to
adjust the highest and lowest article numbers wherever possible. If
articles are found in a newsgroup, the numbers will reflect what what was
found. If no articles are found in a newsgroup, the high number from the
old file will be kept, and the low number will be set to one more then the
high number. This flag may only be used if the `` -o'' flag is
used.
- -o
- If the ``-o'' flag is used, makeactive will read an existing
active file for the list of group names and just renumber all
groups. It will preserve the fourth field of the active file if one
is present. This is analogous to the ctlinnd(8) ``renumber''
command, except that innd(8) should throttled or not running. Do
not use this flag with output redirected to the standard active file!
EXIT STATUS¶
Makeactive exits with non-zero status if any problems occurred.
EXAMPLES¶
A typical way to use the program is with the following
/bin/sh commands:
ctlinnd throttle "Rebuilding active file"
TEMP=${TMPDIR-/var/spool/news/in.coming/tmp}/act$$
if [ -f /var/lib/news/active ] ; then
if makeactive -o >${TEMP} ; then
mv ${TEMP} /var/lib/news/active
fi
else
if makeactive >${TEMP} ; then
# Edit to restore moderated
# and aliased groups.
...
mv ${TEMP} /var/lib/news/active
fi
fi
ctlinnd reload active "New active file"
ctlinnd go ''
HISTORY¶
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. This is
revision 1.3, dated 1996/10/29.
SEE ALSO¶
active(5),
ctlinnd(8),
dbz(3),
filechan(8),
history(5),
innd(8),
newsfeeds(5),
makehistory(8),
newsrequeue(8).
