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From: bill@green.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: expire bug? HELP!
Message-ID: <121@green.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-May-84 20:55:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: green.121
Posted: Sat May 12 20:55:10 1984
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<to be munched> (I'm new to USENET would someone tell me why it happens?)

	I recently got USENET working here from software of unknown?
origin.  I believe it is a 2.10.B distribution, but I am not sure if
any hacks where made to it before I received it.

THE PROBLEM:
	I am trying to use expire to throw away old news and discovered
the program in an infinite loop on the following history file:

<103@tilt.UUCP>	Thu, 10-May-84 15:14:11 EDT	net.news.group/7 net.tv/15 
<1455@zehntel.UUCP>	Thu, 10-May-84 15:14:55 EDT	net.auto/5 
<307@ihuxu.UUCP>	Thu, 10-May-84 15:16:17 EDT	net.bicycle/10 
<161@isrnix.UUCP>	Thu, 10-May-84 15:16:35 EDT	net.wanted/27 
<142@hasmed.UUCP>	Thu, 10-May-84 15:16:58 EDT	net.test/3 
--><15900001@uiuccsb.UUCP>	Thu, 10-May-84 15:17:41 EDT	net.sport.hockey/1 
<1797@mit-eddie.UUCP>	Fri, 11-May-84 20:13:36 EDT	net.sf-lovers/27 net.tv/25 
<10400143@uiucdcs.UUCP>	Fri, 11-May-84 20:14:13 EDT	net.micro/37 
<236@afinitc.UUCP>	Fri, 11-May-84 20:14:43 EDT	net.tv.drwho/5 
<38200008@uiucdcs.UUCP>	Fri, 11-May-84 20:15:18 EDT	net.bicycle/29 
<497@sri-arpa.UUCP>	Fri, 11-May-84 20:15:39 EDT	net.micro/38 

	When expire gets to the line marked, it starts writting it over,
and over, and over.. again into the nhistory file.  We only have 1500 blocks
available and it quickly filled up the disk.  I have started looking at
the expire source and it makes comments about being for 2.9 and not
handling the 2.10 directory structures.  (The scssid is 2.15 3/28/83.)
Should expire work anyway?  Is there a new version for 2.10 which will
work?  If anybody has any ideas at all, I would appreciate it.

					TIA,
-- 
				Bill Bogstad

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