Re: history file too big. Can I use mkhistory to reconstruct?

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From: Tom Limoncelli
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:48

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In <CHETAL.92Nov23100753@poundcake.is.morgan.com> chetal@is.morgan.com (Pradeep Chetal) writes:

>Our history file is too big. Can I blow it away & then use mkhistory to 
>recreate the history file from /var/spool/news area. I know that protection
>against old articles will be limited for a while but it is better than having
>a 50M history file.

This should work, though (as you said) protection against old articles
will be limited for a while.

Other warnings include:
-- it takes a long time to run mkhistory
-- be sure to get any options correct.
-- consider making a backup first!

Tom
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