short numbers in active?

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From: News Administrator
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:45

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I know this one comes up fairly frequently, but I don't remember the answer.
My problem can be summarized by the following from the errlog file:

relaynews: article number (100000) too big for group `junk' active field of 5 digits
relaynews: can't file in junk group; is it absent from active?

How do I increase the length of the numbers in active?  (For now, I'm just
going to lock news, then manually increase the entry for junk, but there
_must_ be a better way.)

BTW - I haven't ugraded to the performance release yet.  Are all the bugs
out yet?

-- 
Paul Tomblin, News Administrator Extraordinaire.  (pt@geovision.gvc.com)
I just administer the news, I don't make or state policy.

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From: news@geovision.gvc.com (News Administrator)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: short numbers in active?
Message-ID: <1992Nov21.224534.14709@geovision.gvc.com>
Date: 21 Nov 92 22:45:34 GMT
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Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
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