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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Empty News Articles
Keywords: bug,problem,out of space
Message-ID: <170@twwells.uucp>
Date: 12 Nov 88 05:52:07 GMT
References: <341@igor.Rational.COM>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <341@igor.Rational.COM> geb@igor.Rational.COM (Gary E. Barnes) writes:
: Can anyone out there tell me what magic I might do to a) get rid of
: all of these "nonexistent" articles and get the real articles

Getting rid of the bogus articles is easy, if you believe the
expire(8) man page.  Use these lines:

	find /usr/spool/news -size 0 -print | xargs rm -f
	expire -r

The first goes through your news directories and trashes zero length
files. The second rebuilds your history files.

As for getting the files back, you'll have to work with your feed for
that, I think.

And as for preventing it from happening again? Good luck! I don't
believe there is any way to do that, short of making sure there is
always enough disk space available.

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Bill
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