Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: expire problem
Message-ID: <300@splut.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 20:46:28 GMT
References: <782@grc.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
Lines: 20
Summary: I have the same problem.

In article <782@grc.UUCP>, don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz) writes:
> expire: Cannot open ///usr/lib/news/history (r): No such file or directory
> 
> I have the history.d and history.od directories and their appropriate
> contents in the correct place.  Why is it looking for a history file?
> If I create an empty history file, it expires okay using the above
> expire command, but there is no history file left when it is done.  Only
> the history.d and history.od directories and their contents.

I am having the same problem (expire doesn't, and prints the same error
message, minus two of the three leading slashes). I'm running patchlevel 12
on Microport System V/AT.

Anyone got any solutions? Even as simple as "run patchlevel 14"?

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