inn2 - cant store article: File exists / rebuild databases

[Marcus Schopen <lists@localguru.de>]

Hallo,

after a blackout my privat inn2 shows the folling in its log, if posting 
a message:

  innd: SERVER cant store article: File exists

To find a solution, I changed /var/lib/news/active for each group to the 
highest und lowest article id. After a restart of inn2 I everything was 
fine again.

Problem: After getting the "Daily Usenet report" at night, I could only 
see articles of the last 3 month in my newsclient. In the configuration 
I told inn2 to keep all articles of the last 6 month. All articles of 
the last 6 month are still in /var/spool/news/articles directory, but 
not shown in the client.

What do I have to do to make a clean rebuild of all inn2's internal 
databases/history files etc., so I can see all articles again?

Thanks,
Marcus