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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Can I delete ohistory and nhistory after an expire, or what?
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Date: 15 Feb 89 16:17:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: karl@sugar.uu.net's message of 14 Feb 89 20:30:08 GMT

karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
   I use the dbz routines with news 2.11 at patchlevel 14.

   I have noticed that I end up having an ohistory file of about two meg and
   an nhistory of a meg and a half or so and I was wondering if there was any
   reason why I should keep these guys around

ohistory can usually be removed once expire(8) completes.  nhistory
should not exist after a successful completion of expire, however; at
the end of a successful expire, it is renamed as history.  If you
still have nhistory, you need to find something deeper wrong with
what's going on.

Cf. news/src/expire.c, approx lines 770-780.

--Karl