MAKEACTIVE(8)MAKEACTIVE(8)NAMEmakeactive - tool to recover Usenet active file.
SYNOPSISmakeactive [ -m ] [ -o ]
DESCRIPTION
Makeactive invokes find(1) to get a list of all directo-
ries in the news spool tree, <patharticles in inn.conf>.
It discards directories named lost+found as well as those
that have a period in them. It scans all other directo-
ries for all-numeric filenames and determines the highest
and lowest number. If you have turned on the storage man-
ager with the 'storageapi' in inn.conf(5), makeactive
reads .overview.index to determine 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 mod-
erated 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 exam-
ple, 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 news-
group, 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-<PATH specified with --with-tmp-path at configure>}/act$$
if [ -f <pathdb in inn.conf>/active ] ; then
if makeactive-o >${TEMP} ; then
1
MAKEACTIVE(8)MAKEACTIVE(8)
mv ${TEMP} <pathdb in inn.conf>/active
fi
else
if makeactive >${TEMP} ; then
# Edit to restore moderated
# and aliased groups.
...
mv ${TEMP} <pathdb in inn.conf>/active
fi
fi
ctlinnd reload active "New active file"
ctlinnd go ''
HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNet-
News. This is revision 1.1.2.1, dated 1999/06/12.
SEE ALSOactive(5), ctlinnd(8), dbz(3), filechan(8), history(5),
inn.conf(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), makehistory(8), news-
requeue(8).
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