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Hi all,
I've just copied my mailman configs from one system to another, and
after reinstalling innd on a private news server, I'm now getting the
following in the logs:
Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) rgsouthern: [0..0] Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) nothing new for list rgsouthern Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) rgsouthern watermark: 12 Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) melbwireless: [0..0] Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) nothing new for list melbwireless Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) melbwireless watermark: 37
As the newsgroups were reset, the watermark is obviously incorrect.
Is there a way to reset this watermark so that the system starts
gating news correctly again?
-- Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0412 935 897
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Steven Haigh wrote:
You can use bin/withlist to manipulate the list attribute usenet_watermark. Set it to a number 1 less than the number of the first article you want from the news server or to None if you just want to 'catch up' without retrieving articles or to 0 if you want to retrieve all articles on the news server.
For example
bin/withlist -l <list_name>
and at the >>> prompt
m.usenet_watermark = 5
or
m.usenet_watermark = None
and then
m.Save()
and then a control-D to exit.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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Excellent - this worked like a charm. Thanks :)
On Mon, February 27, 2006 2:45 am, Mark Sapiro wrote:
-- Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0412 935 897
Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Also, if you want to set the watermark to None to "catch up" and start retrieving with the next post, you can use the _mass_catchup feature on the Mail<->News gateways page rather than withlist. If you want to set 0 or a specific message number, you still need to use withlist as described in the prior post.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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Steven Haigh wrote:
You can use bin/withlist to manipulate the list attribute usenet_watermark. Set it to a number 1 less than the number of the first article you want from the news server or to None if you just want to 'catch up' without retrieving articles or to 0 if you want to retrieve all articles on the news server.
For example
bin/withlist -l <list_name>
and at the >>> prompt
m.usenet_watermark = 5
or
m.usenet_watermark = None
and then
m.Save()
and then a control-D to exit.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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Excellent - this worked like a charm. Thanks :)
On Mon, February 27, 2006 2:45 am, Mark Sapiro wrote:
-- Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0412 935 897
Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Also, if you want to set the watermark to None to "catch up" and start retrieving with the next post, you can use the _mass_catchup feature on the Mail<->News gateways page rather than withlist. If you want to set 0 or a specific message number, you still need to use withlist as described in the prior post.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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