gabriel rosenkoetter writes:
> Oh, so just doing cd /var/news/db && touch history && makedbz -f is
> somehow insufficient on a completely new install?

My situation may differ a bit.  I also needed to incorporate all my
existing files, upgraded to the newer spool method, change the
overview method etc.  There was a lot of doing things by hand.  I
would not have noticed if there were a few nits in the default
database file setup.

-wolfgang
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