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From: root@sporty.UUCP (Super STUD)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Problems with expire
Message-ID: <293@sporty.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 91 14:15:08 GMT
Reply-To: jeff@sporty.UUCP (Jeff Anderson)
Distribution: usa
Organization: J. A. Anderson & Company, Columbus, OH
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I am getting the following mail pretty regularly:
(I am running B-news 2.11. patch level 19)

From root Sun Mar 10 01:06:07 1991
To: news
Date: Sun Mar 10 01:06:07 1991

expire: Cannot open /usr/lib/news/history (r): No such file or directory


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Cron: The previous message is the standard output
      and standard error of one of your cron commands.

Yesterday I discovered that expire was not expiring anything.  After several
attempts at getting expire to rebuild my history files, I finally got expire
to run without error.   This file was created as a 0 lenght file while
expire was rebuilding my history file.  After the job completed, the file
had been deleted.  All the files in my history.d directory had been updated
and appeared to be pretty normal.

Any ideas?

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