Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!glee
From: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: help
Keywords: expire
Message-ID: <6483@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 89 18:02:51 GMT
References: <320@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 9

I suspect that your history file is corrupt. This has happened to me when
the system crashes during a news feed, and the subsequent expire gets stuck.

Just use expire -r to rebuilt the history files and it should be okay again.
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Godfrey Lee                                            P.O. Box 9707
Cognos Incorporated                                    3755 Riverside Dr.
VOICE:  (613) 738-1338 x3802   FAX: (613) 738-0002     Ottawa, Ontario
UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!glee                      CANADA  K1G 3Z4