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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Expire: wrong number of fields in history
Keywords: CNews C-News C News expire
Message-ID: <669406166.1249@mindcraft.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 18:09:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.095440.6559@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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In article <1991Mar19.095440.6559@ecst.csuchico.edu> warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu
(John Kennedy) writes:
>  Anybody know a clever way to track these articles down and kill `em off so
>they're not causing problems?  I get this mail every day from doexpire:

    The bad lines in the history file cause more problems than the
    articles themselves do.  Edit 'em out and run mkdbm, being sure to
    lock the news system while doing so.  I just leave the articles
    there if I can't find them by reading the mangled history lines.
    There aren't that many of them, and they do get cleaned out
    eventually.

>Short of grepping for the ID in every article on my system, how do I
>dispose of these guys?

    At least one of the lines in the example you gave included the
    installation time of the article, which should suggest something.

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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