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Re: expire problem in cnews: Ver.24-Mar-1991

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From: Harry Bochner
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:33
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In article <1992Dec14.142531.13306@drd.com>, mark@drd.com (Resident.Alien) writes:
|> Expire has recently been dying with the following message mailed to
|> root:
|> ---
|> expire problems:
|> expire: no slash in article path `comp.un'

Sounds like a bad line in the history file, probably one that got truncated
somehow, so that it says ".... comp.un" instead of "... comp.unix.shell/1234",
or some such.

If so, running mkhistory should cure it.

-- 
Harry Bochner
bochner@das.harvard.edu
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From: bochner@das.harvard.edu (Harry Bochner)
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Subject: Re: expire problem in cnews: Ver.24-Mar-1991
Message-ID: <1992Dec14.213309.1760@das.harvard.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:33:09 GMT
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