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From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: question on bad newsgroups
Keywords: nomatch
Message-ID: <1487@stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: 1 Jun 89 08:43:48 GMT
References: <185@icdi10.uucp> <730@dtscp1.uucp> <805@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <200@icdi10.UUCP>
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In article <200@icdi10.UUCP> fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) writes:
#In article <805@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> news@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) writes:
#>In article <730@dtscp1.uucp> scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes:
#>~>May 27 00:29	local	Unparsable date "31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT"
#>~Where do these come from?
#>
#> ... converts the -1 to one second before the UNIX big-bang.  
#>Actually, since your logfile says "local", maybe it is YOUR machine
#>that is producing the bogus date!
#
#I have no doubt that it is. But it's doing the same thing on a bunch of other 
#machines too. So it's not unique to the world and must be something that is 
#fixable.
#And yes this is Xenix (386) 2.3.2

Just to confirm it's not a local problem - we get it too, on a Sun3 (SunOS 
3.5).   So it's not just a Xenix problem.     I can only assume that expire
is choking over something in the history file.  As our history file is
currently 3.5MBytes, I haven't found what.

Regards,        "None shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity"
        David Wright           STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, UK
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