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I want to delete a newsgroup and scrub every vestige of its data and histor=
y from the spool directory without breaking something. So I want nothing re= garding that newsgroup left in the spool databases, as if the group had nev=
er been added in the first place.

How might I do this?

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On 20.09.2024 um 05:00 Uhr Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:

I want to delete a newsgroup and scrub every vestige of its data and
history from the spool directory without breaking something. So I
want nothing regarding that newsgroup left in the spool databases, as
if the group had never been added in the first place.

How might I do this?

I did this by removing it from the groups.txt file, then deleting the
sqlite databases from /var/spool/rslight.
After some time it should also disappear from the website group
overview.
The articles are already unavailable after deleting the sqlite stuff.
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 8:35:42 +0000, Marco Moock wrote:

On 20.09.2024 um 05:00 Uhr Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:

I want to delete a newsgroup and scrub every vestige of its data and
history from the spool directory without breaking something. So I
want nothing regarding that newsgroup left in the spool databases, as
if the group had never been added in the first place.

How might I do this?

I did this by removing it from the groups.txt file, then deleting the
sqlite databases from /var/spool/rslight.
After some time it should also disappear from the website group
overview.
The articles are already unavailable after deleting the sqlite stuff.

Run <config_dir>/scripts/maintenance.php:
-help: This help page
-version: Display version
******************* IMPORTANT **************************
*** PLEASE DISABLE cron.php WHEN RUNNING THIS SCRIPT *** ********************************************************
-clean: Remove extraneous group db3 files
-import: Import articles from a .db3 file (-import alt.test-articles)
You must first add group name to
<config_dir>/<section>/groups.txt manually
-remove: Remove all data for a group (-remove alt.test)
You must also remove group name from
<config_dir>/<section>/groups.txt manually
-reset: Reset a group to restart from zero messages (-reset alt.test)

When you run it with '-remove', it will remove all data from the group
from the overview db and history db.

It will also delete all spool files related to the group, except the
article database, which it will rename to
<group-name>-articles.db3-removed, which you may then delete.
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Retro Guy
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