Since the recent bug introduced into rslight by some unnamed developer,
I've added some features to mainenance.php to help in repairing and
maintaining a spool.

Here are the main features of the script. NOTE: This script is only
meant to be used on systems NOT using tradspool. Don't use tradspool
anyway, it's not the default and it's not tested very well.

-clear-diskcache: Remove all cache files if using Disk Caching
If you are using caching, and using the 'diskcache', this will clean
out the files, which can be a good idea if making major repairs to the
spool. If you are using memcacheD, just restart the daemon to clear it's
cache.

-import: Import articles from a .db3 file (-import alt.test-articles)
This will clear the overview for a group, then rebuild it for that
group including ONLY the articles that actually exist in your articles
database. This repairs any overview articles (removes) that don't
actually exist on your server.

-newsection: Create a new section for groups (-newsection mynewsection)
This will create a new section for your site. You then only need to
edit the groups.txt file in your config dir/section name/ directory.

-refill: Go back x articles and retrieve missing from remote server
(-refill alt.test 200)
This will go back x articles from the remote server's newest article
number, and pull articles that you do not already have. It will skip
duplicates.

-remove: Remove all data for a group (-remove alt.test)
This will remove all articles and overview data for a group. You
must still manually remove the group name from your config dir/section
name/groups.txt file.

-reset: Reset a group to restart from zero messages (-reset alt.test)
This will reset the remote server pointer to '1' for a group, and
will also remove all the articles from overview and articles databases.

-reset-section: Reset ALL GROUPS in a Section to restart from zero
messages.
(-reset-section rocksolid)
This does the same as '-reset', but for an entire section.

These changes should be in 'devel' later today (15 Nov, 2024).

--
Retro Guy