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From: gaf@uucs1.UUCP (gaf)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Question on non-dbm history files
Message-ID: <253@uucs1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 04:05:00 GMT
Reply-To: gaf@uucs1.UUCP ()
Organization: UUCS inc., Phoenix Az
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Regarding the 2.11 software...
If I understand rightly, these ever-growing files in my admin/history.d
directory are used to detect duplicate articles.  Okay, but is that all
they're for?

Since our site is fed by only one other site, the other site would presumably
filter out dups.  This means I could just make these unbounded files links
to /dev/null and save a bunch of space and effort.

The "effort" comes from running on a not-quite Unix system, and having the
expire program misbehave.  I can't use it because it does things to my
active file that 'rn' doesn't like.  So the history files grow forever,
forcing me to manually trim them.  They also take lots of space which could
be better used to give articles another day to live here.
-- 
Guy Finney					It's that feeling of deja-vu
UUCS inc.   Phoenix, Az				all over again.
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