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From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Unjunking?
Message-ID: <3707@rpp386.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 88 14:36:19 GMT
References: <2293@rtech.rtech.com>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
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In article <2293@rtech.rtech.com> daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
>There's a bunch of stuff in junk that I would like to refeed into rnews
>now that I've fixed the problem that caused the junking.  Unfortunately,
>the history file says the articles have already been seen, so [ir]news
>ignores them.
>
>Is there any easy way of handling this problem?  The worst case would be
>to rebuild the history file (which would take forever), and I'm not even
>really sure how I'd do that.

the technique which i use is to grep out all of the lines containing `junk'
in the history files and resubmit all of the articles in junk.  this assumes
you aren't running DBM.

if you are, you can just remove the history files, resubmit the articles
and then rebuild the history files.  i suspect the speed of DBM versus
not makes this a fast alternative.  in the former case, no DBM, you can
select only the articles in junk, which are, in this case, the only articles
you are going to resubmit.

you do need to be careful in any event because you could wind up sending
all of these articles to your downstream feeds all over again if you aren't.

this seems about right, your milage may vary.

- john.
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