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Article #4817Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:49
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:49
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In article <MRL.92Dec18123306@sun4.uai.com> mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) writes:
>... If I don't delete history.o,
>doexpire (or something it calls) complains that it has to run with
>expire -r.
A modern doexpire will itself delete history.o before it starts getting
serious about space shortages. You've got a seriously-old copy of C News.
>What is the purpose of history.o? When is it needed? Can I automate
>the removal of history.o? ...
It's just the old history file. It can be useful for troubleshooting.
Otherwise, its only real use is that it ties down about the amount of
space that doexpire will need for the history rebuild, in effect reserving
it to increase the chances that doexpire won't need to resort to -r.
Modern doexpires automate its removal already.
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Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o Message-ID: <BzJ66K.6zr@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:49:31 GMT References: <MRL.92Dec18123306@sun4.uai.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 19