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Article #4820Re: expire: wrong number of fields in history
From: Bob Peirce #305
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:59
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:59
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In article <2478@itexjct.jct.ac.il> warren@itexjct.jct.ac.il (Warren Burstein) writes: >I get this message in mail from a c-news system every time expire >runs. What do I do now? > >expire problems: >expire: wrong number of fields in history `<1992Nov30.151731.28128@city.cs> 7<AGW.9...' >expire: wrong number of fields in history `<1992Nov30.154856.11566@rchland.ibm.com>...' > I had one from 11/24. I waited until it was old enough not to affect any actual news item and then I edited the history file to fix it. I think I could have done that earlier at no greater risk. The problem is I don't know what risk I was taking! It seems to have worked but I don't know for sure yet. In my case, two lines got appended in the history file. I just needed to insert a return at the right point. -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us 412-471-5320 venetia@investor.pgh.pa.us [NeXT Mail] !uunet.uu.net!pitt!investor!rbp [UUCP]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pitt.edu!pitt!darth!investor.pgh.pa.us!rbp From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: expire: wrong number of fields in history Message-ID: <1992Dec18.195938.27336@investor.pgh.pa.us> Date: 18 Dec 92 19:59:38 GMT References: <2478@itexjct.jct.ac.il> Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 19