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From: matt@eecs.nwu.edu (Matt Larson)
Subject: C news error: Wrong number of fields in history file (again...)
Message-ID: <1991May3.143938.25234@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
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Organization: Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University
Date: Fri, 3 May 1991 14:39:38 GMT
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I seem to remember this problem being discussed recently -- I'm sorry
to bring it up again.  If anyone knows the fix or cause, could you
please send me mail?

For about the fourth time since installing C news about three months
ago, I received this message in the mail:

expire problems:
expire: wrong number of fields in history `<Ucanada-primerate_26e@clarinet.com>
673...'

Sure enough, the history file line for that message was corrupted:

<1Rbkp-sixers_26e@clarinet.com> 673136893~-     clari.sports.basketball/424
<Ucanada-primerate_26e@clarinet.com>    6731368<1991May1.172907.14430@scifi.uucp
>       673140531~-     rec.scuba/918
<115243@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> 673140533~-     rec.games.frp/4037

Does anyone know why this occurs?  For the record, we are running C
News, version 15-Dec-1990, on a heavily loaded Encore Multimax running
Umax 4.3.  The same version of C news running on a less loaded Sun
4/470 running SunOS 4.1 receiving pretty much the same feed never has
this problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
--
Matt Larson, Distributed Systems Analyst
Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University
matt@acns.nwu.edu   (708) 491-5366