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From: mark@casemo.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: History subfiles in 2.10.3 news
Message-ID: <115@casemo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 09:14:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 09:14:13 1986
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Organization: CASE Communications, Inc.
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Keywords: 2.10.3 history files
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Summary: more 2.10.3 history problems

> 
> A few days ago, I installed news 2.10.3 to replace news 2.10.2
> on a 3B2 running System V Release 2.2.  This particular news version
> just came from seismo, and is supposed to be the most recent and
> debugged version of 2.10.3. The conversion went reasonably well,
> so far I have found no bugs, and the rnews(inews) and expire functions
> seem to run MUCH faster than with the 2.10.2 version.

In fact, there is more. When I tried to do a rebuild of the
history file with 2.10.3, all articles were marked in the history
file as being received on the day I ran the rebuild.
In addition, it seems that rnews no longer puts the receive date
in the article header when the article is received. In 2.10.3 beta, it
was this date that expire used when it did the rebuild. If you look
at the rebuild code in expire, there is a gaping hole.
There is a statement that looks like:

	if (dorebuild) {

		....

		rectime = cgtdate(recdate);
		tm = loaltime (&rectime);
		
		....
	}

but I have not yet been able to find where recdate gets set when
you are doing a rebuild. In 2.10.3 beta, it was pulled from the
article header, but, as I said, rnews no longer puts it there.

Now all of this isn't bad unless you mind the news using most/all of
your disk. With all articles marked as being received on the same day,
it is a matter of about 1-2 weeks before things start getting removed.
Any help on this matter would be appreciated.
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