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Article #4822Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o
From: Bruce Lilly
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:50
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:50
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In article <MRL.92Dec18123306@sun4.uai.com> mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) wrote: > >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.$$ It's a copy of the old history file. I've been running with the following for over a year with no problem: $ grep history.o /usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire expire $ropt $hopt $* $NEWSCTL/explist 2>/tmp/doex$$ && > $NEWSCTL/history.o Note that if expire fails, nothing happens to history.o. If expire works, history.o is truncated to zero length. This is based on an old (ca. 1990) doexpire. Modify to suit your local conditions. -- Bruce Lilly blilly!bruce@Broadcast.Sony.COM ...uunet!sonyusa!sonyd1!blilly!bruce
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Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!udel!intercon!psinntp!monymsys!sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM!blilly.UUCP!bruce From: bruce@blilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly) Subject: Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o References: <MRL.92Dec18123306@sun4.uai.com> Organization: Bruce Lilly Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 22:50:15 GMT Message-ID: <1992Dec20.225015.29317@blilly.UUCP> Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly) Lines: 22