dlm@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Dennis L. Mumaugh) (02/26/89)
After battling an expire bug for some time I read expire.c and
found a magic switch -R in expire. If you use the dbm routines,
this rebuilds history.pag and history.dat and nothing more.
Its major use is when there is a munged article id or "unparseable"
date in the history file. Use sed to remove the offending line(s)
and the use
expire -R
to rebuild the data files for dbm.
Of course, the articles whose lines are removed will never be
expired unless you either run find or expire -r -I -h .
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=Dennis L. Mumaugh
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