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In article <MRL.92Dec18123306@sun4.uai.com> mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) writes:
>I'm trying to keep $NEWSCTL where it is.  We have about 17 megabytes
>of available space on that partition if I delete history.o.  The
>history file is about 8 megabytes.  If I don't delete history.o,
>doexpire (or something it calls) complains that it has to run with
>expire -r.

>What is the purpose of history.o?  When is it needed?  Can I automate
>the removal of history.o?  I'd like not to have to move things.$$

It's a backup copy of history, created when expire runs. It's needed
when your existing history file gets munged, and you need a quick
way of getting things going again. You can certainly automate its'
removal; just put in a cron job to kill it right before expire runs.


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