karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) (02/15/89)
I use the dbz routines with news 2.11 at patchlevel 14. I have noticed that I end up having an ohistory file of about two meg and an nhistory of a meg and a half or so and I was wondering if there was any reason why I should keep these guys around -- I mean, I could always rebuild the history file if something happened to it. I tried to RTFM and didn't find anything. Gurus, please pardon my naive question. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl | "Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is -- karl@sugar.uu.net | watching television." -- David Letterman -- Usenet BBS (713) 438-5018
karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (02/16/89)
karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
I use the dbz routines with news 2.11 at patchlevel 14.
I have noticed that I end up having an ohistory file of about two meg and
an nhistory of a meg and a half or so and I was wondering if there was any
reason why I should keep these guys around
ohistory can usually be removed once expire(8) completes. nhistory
should not exist after a successful completion of expire, however; at
the end of a successful expire, it is renamed as history. If you
still have nhistory, you need to find something deeper wrong with
what's going on.
Cf. news/src/expire.c, approx lines 770-780.
--Karlglee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee) (02/21/89)
In article <KARL.89Feb15111702@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: +------ |karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: | I use the dbz routines with news 2.11 at patchlevel 14. | | I have noticed that I end up having an ohistory file of about two meg and | an nhistory of a meg and a half or so and I was wondering if there was any | reason why I should keep these guys around | |ohistory can usually be removed once expire(8) completes. nhistory |should not exist after a successful completion of expire, however; at |the end of a successful expire, it is renamed as history. If you |still have nhistory, you need to find something deeper wrong with |what's going on. +------ nhistory after expire means that expire has died before finishing. I noticed sometimes if I just rerun it, it would be okay, no idea why. Other times, it indicates that the history file is corrupted, and you have to rebuild the history file (use "expire -r"). I also noticed that the rebuild does not expire articles (at least not all of them), and you have to do a regular expire run after that to get everything up to snuff. All in all, a lot of manual intervention and system resources. I am just glad that this stuff will be replaced soon. Where is Cnews, where is news 3.0 ?? I know, I know, it is coming Real Soon Now... I am not complaining, just frustrated everytime I have to clean up, usually right after I come back from a trip. Murphy is alive and well, sigh ... -- Godfrey Lee P.O. Box 9707 Cognos Incorporated 3755 Riverside Dr. VOICE: (613) 738-1338 x3802 FAX: (613) 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!glee CANADA K1G 3Z4