rwl@apcipdx (Rob Lucke) (09/16/89)
Since I lacked challenge in my occupation :-) I decided to start a USENET
feed on our local network. I was not disappointed, in that CNEWS immediately
provided me with a mystery to solve.
EXPIRE started leaving me little messages of the form:
expire problem:
error: no slash in article path 'comp.sys.'
My disk began to fill up, since the expiration program apparently gave up
after this error. I enabled debug on the expiration process, producing a
14Mb (!) mail message to myself. Grepping around in this led me to a line
in the history file that read:
<2598@iscuva.ISCS.COM> 619500634~- comp.sys.195006~- rec.arts.tv.soaps/7842
^^^^^^^^^
This line format was obviously at odds with what was SUPPOSED to be there. I
therefore rebuilt the entire history database, which solved the problem. Being
the curious type, I now would like to know WHY this happened.
Would some kind soul please let me know if I found a bug, did something
wrong, or am suffering from delusions? I don't want to have to keep rebuilding
the history database (a 5-7 hour process) continually.
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