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From: mk@aifh.ed.ac.uk
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: history file getting corrupted in Cnews
Message-ID: <1991May1.134706.23973@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 1 May 91 13:47:06 GMT
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Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland
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I am having problems with the ~news/history file getting corrupted,  this 
causes incoming news to be junked.  This happens about once a week on
average.
Seems to get corrupted when running Cnews expire.
Only way to fix it is to run mkhistory
Anyone got any ideas?

Below are extracts of error messages:

From news@ed.aifh Wed May  1 05:24:35 1991
Received: from helium by aipna.ed.ac.uk; Wed, 1 May 91 05:24:23 GMT
From: Network News Administrator <news@ed.aifh>
Date: Wed, 1 May 91 05:20:06 BST
Message-Id: <14105.9105010420@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
Apparently-To: news
Status: RO

expire problems:
expire: dbzagain(history.n) failed

From news@ed.aifh Wed May  1 08:22:47 1991
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From: Network News Administrator <news@ed.aifh>
Date: Wed, 1 May 91 08:18:32 BST
Message-Id: <14691.9105010718@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
Apparently-To: news
Status: RO

errlog.o
---------
relaynews: database files for `/usr/local/lib/news/history' incomprehensible or unavailable
relaynews: database files for `/usr/local/lib/news/history' incomprehensible or unavailable
relaynews: database files for `/usr/local/lib/news/history' incomprehensible or unavailable
...... etc etc etc
recent bad input batches:
bad/673059641
bad/673060270
...... etc etc etc



Michael Keightley