he@idt.unit.no (Havard Eidnes) (02/27/90)
This seems like the right place to ask this question, even though it says "b" in the group name... I keep getting this message from expire in C news: expire problems: expire: wrong number of fields in ` 635590719~-...' What actions are necessary to fix this? I am sorry if this is a typical 'novice' question answered several times already, but I do not ordinarily read this newsgroup, and I am not particularly experienced in running a news system (you guessed that, right?). Please reply to me via mail. TIA, - Havard
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (02/27/90)
In article <1990Feb26.204931.7667@idt.unit.no> he@idt.unit.no (Havard Eidnes) writes: > expire: wrong number of fields in ` 635590719~-...' I replied to the original poster by mail, as requested, but in case folks are curious: the message essentially means "corrupted history file", and the fix is to either make local repairs (if you know what you're doing) or rebuild history (if you don't). -- "The N in NFS stands for Not, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology or Need, or perhaps Nightmare"| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
xxrich@alliant1 (Rich Rinehart) (02/27/90)
>> expire: wrong number of fields in ` 635590719~-...' > >I replied to the original poster by mail, as requested, but in case folks >are curious: the message essentially means "corrupted history file", and >the fix is to either make local repairs (if you know what you're doing) >or rebuild history (if you don't). how does one rebuild history, by the way. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rich Rinehart | phone: 216-433-5211 NASA Lewis Research Center | email: xxrich@alliant1.lerc.nasa.gov -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (03/01/90)
In article <1990Feb27.155224.3019@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> xxrich@alliant1.UUCP (Rich Rinehart) writes: >>the fix is to either make local repairs (if you know what you're doing) >>or rebuild history (if you don't). > >how does one rebuild history, by the way. With mkhistory. (That's the C News method, I think B News has it as an option to expire for some reason.) -- "The N in NFS stands for Not, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology or Need, or perhaps Nightmare"| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu