Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!cuuxb!dlm
From: dlm@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: undocumetned feature: expire -R
Summary: rebuilds dbm files
Message-ID: <2528@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 89 21:12:54 GMT
Reply-To: dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
Organization: ATT Data Systems Group, Lisle, Ill.
Lines: 15

After battling an expire bug for some time I read expire.c and
found a magic switch -R in expire.  If you use the dbm routines,
this rebuilds history.pag and history.dat and nothing more.

Its major use is when there is a munged article id or "unparseable"
date in the history file.  Use sed to remove the offending line(s)
and the use 
	expire -R 
to rebuild the data files for dbm.

Of course, the articles whose lines are removed will never be
expired unless you either run find or expire -r -I -h .
-- 
=Dennis L. Mumaugh
 Lisle, IL       ...!{att,lll-crg}!cuuxb!dlm  OR cuuxb!dlm@arpa.att.com