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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How do you get rid of this errlog message?
Message-ID: <291@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 17:37:08 GMT
References: <964@psuhcx.psu.edu>
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From article <964@psuhcx.psu.edu>, by wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (William C. Fenner):
] In article <190@placer1.COM> amos@placer1.COM (Kevin Amos) writes:
] |Could someone tell me how to get rid of this message in my
] |errlog file.
] |
] |Oct 14 05:05	news	expire: Unparsable date "25144,1,1.UUCP> GMT"
] Ahh... this is something I hadn't thought about... the tab will mess up
] expire too.  This is another side effect of the messed-up message from
] brentp@microsoft.  The tab in the middle of the Message-ID makes expire
] think that the rest of it is the date of the message, since normally, the
] Message-ID is seperated from the date by a tab.
] 
] I'm not sure what the best way to get rid of this is... maybe go into the
] directories themselves and remove the message files, and then rebuild the
] history file, or maybe just edit the history file...
] 
] Anyone have any better suggestions?
] 
]   Bill
] -- 
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Try the following two lines:

1. from the /usr/new/lib/news/news.daily script:

find /usr/spool/news -mtime +7 -type f -exec rm \{\} \; 2>&1 >/dev/null

2. from the /usr/new/lib/news/news.weekly script:

./expire -e 7 -r

It is left as an excercise to the reader to figure out how this dealt
with the microsoft problem; and for the disbelieving here is a
:r !wc /usr/new/lib/news/history

    5455   23383  346657 /usr/new/lib/news/history

5455 Articles - Hey, I can live with that. (== 12 megs or so)
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