[news.software.b] problems with Cnews expire

schoch@sheba.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch) (09/28/90)

I get this error message from expire:

/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/expire: wrong number of fields in `...'
/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/expire: bad return from doline(): `'

There is no blank line in the active file (egrep '^$' active failed).

What's going on?

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (09/28/90)

In article <1990Sep27.201702.1624@news.arc.nasa.gov> schoch@sheba.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch) writes:
>/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/expire: wrong number of fields in `...'
>
>There is no blank line in the active file (egrep '^$' active failed).

The error reporting isn't quite all it should be, in spots here and
there.  This is a problem with the history file, not the active file.
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