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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Bug in expire.c that affects Pyramids (and probably some others).
Message-ID: <2780@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-May-85 00:56:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: nsc.2780
Posted: Fri May 31 00:56:27 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Jun-85 00:40:15 EDT
References: <843@mnetor.UUCP> <216@ncr-tp.UUCP>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: The Blue Parrot
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Summary: 

In article <216@ncr-tp.UUCP> greg@ncr-tp.UUCP (Greg Noel) writes:
>a lot of strange "cannot find all links" messages.  I checked his problem

that isn't a bug, that is a feature. When you use 'expire -r' command
expire will traverse your SPOOl directory and read the header of every
file. The then attempts to coordinate the Newsgroups: lines where multiple
groups have been posted to so that a single line can be written to the
history file. When you get a message that has been posted to multiple
groups and one of those groups isn't supported on your site (for example,
if the posting is to 'net.wanted,nj.wanted' and your site is in the bay
area) then the second link won't exist and expire will report it as
missing. With 2.10.1 news, expire didn't write ANY of the links in,
sometimes rebuilding a database that was worse than it started with (sigh).
2.10.2 is much better, and will write the correct line to the data file, so
these messages can be ignored safely (and, if you get annoyed at them, can
be hacked out of the program... hint. hint).

chuq
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