Re: Converting CNFS to tradspool

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Rejo Zenger wrote:

> ++ 19/05/03 20:03 -0400 - Jeffrey M. Vinocur:
>
> >By the way, the final 2.4.0 was released.
> 
> I know, but the prerelease is running smoothly and I don't have too much
> time. Murphy told me not to fix a thing that isn't broken.

Sure, that's why it was "by the way" and not "you must upgrade!" :-)


>   perl -ne '($a,$b,$_) = split "\t"; print if $_' history > /tmp/list
>   respool < /tmp/list
> 
> But that doesn't seem to work.

Looks about right to me -- can you be more detailed about not working?  
Error messages?  No effect?


> So now I have CNFS buffers that I don't use anymore but with the
> articles stored in it and a new spool based on tradspool.

By the way, if you can spare the disk space, you can just keep them 
around until such time (if ever) as all the articles in them should 
expire; as long as you're not writing new articles, they won't roll over.


> How do I get the articles from the CNFS buffers into this tradspool?
> Same system and the tradspool already filing with fresh articles.

Right, the only way I know of is respool.c -- seems like it should work as 
far as I can see.

-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
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