[news.software.b] Problem with expire in B news 2.11.19

bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) (09/29/90)

Does anyone have a fix for this problem where expire fails to log the
offending file name when it can't parse a date?

Our logs are chock full of lines like the ones below, and I can't seem
to find any files containing the unparsable date strings.

      expire: : Unparsable date "184475170"
      expire: : Unparsable date "184475216"
      expire: : Unparsable date "184482218"
      expire: : Unparsable date "184482219"
      expire: : Unparsable date "184482220"

The second colon in these messages should be preceded by a file name;
this indicates the global string "filename" is empty.

Does expire unlink the offending articles, rendering this a non-issue?
Or do I need to worry about it?

Thanks,
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Bob Weissman
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