Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!progress!erf From: erf@progress.COM (Eric Feigenson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Expire/history file question Keywords: history expire fields Message-ID: <1991Feb4.144836.2706@progress.com> Date: 4 Feb 91 14:48:36 GMT Sender: news@progress.com (The News User) Organization: Progress Software Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: ericf I've been getting messages from expire (well, just this one message, actually) that look like: expire: wrong number of fields in `<56191@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> 665179672...' What does this mean (aside from the obvious fact that there are a different number of fields than expected)? Is it serious? Will it go away on its own? Grepping the history file to find this line yields: <56191@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> 665179672~- rec.a 665180849~- misc.jobs.misc/1232 (looking at this line reveals the obvious problem that a control character is stuck in the middle of the line, as if struck by something like line noise... how could this happen? How can I fix these lines???) Any help will be appreciated! Thanks in advance! -EricF -- Eric R. Feigenson UUCP: mit-eddie!progress!erf Progress Software Corp. Internet: erf@progress.com 5 Oak Park Bedford, MA 01730