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roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:


>	The problem is, we don't want to invalidate everybody's .newsrc
>file.  Is there any reasonable way to make the article numbers (i.e.
>contents of the active file) on the new sun news server match those on the
>old vax news server, and stay in sync?

The good news is, the answer is very simple.  The bad news is, the answer
is a resounding NO.

All you can do is, starting at midnight, or some other quiet time, shut down
all internal and external posting sources, then copy the entire news spool
hierarchy, and the active file, from the old machine to the new machine.
Then, rebuild history, and now bring up the new machine.  Tell everyone in
the world to stop reading news on the old machine and start on the new.  The
only other addition I can think of is for the old machine to NFS mount
the news spool directory on the new machine while people are transitioning.

Keeping two machines, both running as servers, in sync, is impossible for more
than a few minutes.

Sorry.

OH PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, let SOMEONE tell me I am wrong!!!!
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