Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!utoday!sean From: sean@utoday.com (Sean Fulton) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Expire: wrong number of fields in history Keywords: CNews C-News C News expire Message-ID: <1991Mar20.055807.11891@utoday.com> Date: 20 Mar 91 05:58:07 GMT References: <1991Mar19.095440.6559@ecst.csuchico.edu> Organization: UNIX Today! Lines: 28 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: > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= (start) >expire problems: >expire: wrong number of fields in history `<1991Feb20.153104.4390@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> ...' >expire: wrong number of fields in history `<1991Feb26.200814.20317@cs.cmu.edu> 6676...' >expire: wrong number of fields in history ` 668858933...' >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= (finish) > > The start and finish are added by me, of course. Anyway, I'm running CNews >(just shy of the latest patch), NNTP 1.5.11 and I'm a wee bit short of space in >the slice where I keep the history files (periodic warnings, but no real >problem). Short of grepping for the ID in every article on my system, how do I >dispose of these guys? > I was able to remove them rather drastically, but it worked. Try deleting your history files (or mv them to another name), then run mkhistory. Sort of like stopping a car by slamming it into reverse, but it rebuilds the fields and never caused me any problems. -- Sean Fulton sean@utoday.com UNIX Today! (516) 562-5430 /* The opinions expressed above are not those of my employer */