kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) (03/21/91)
I'm kinda new at these versions, and I could use some help. I'm used to UUCP and B and SYSV, but here I am helping a neighbor with a BSD system, installing NNTP and C-news. It actually seems to run okay... well, mostly .... but I'm suddenly getting a bunch of mail from the expire program. Anybody know what it's trying to tell me? It just looks so garbled that I dunno what it is... }From: nrc.com!news (News admin (mickey)) }Apparently-To: usenet } }expire problems: }expire: wrong number of fields in history `g/118...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `ek/234...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `<1991Mar15.152527.8566@dvorak.amd.com> 6...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `hics/60...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `/10...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `utos/170...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `bicycles/247...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `5...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `9...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `<telecom11.204.13@eecs.nwu.edu> 66909498...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `91...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `c.sport.basketball/550...' }expire: bad arrival date in `- comp.protocols.nfs/87...' -- fix by hand }expire: wrong number of fields in history `/68...' }expire: bad arrival date in `686~- rec.autos.sport/122...' -- fix by hand }expire: wrong number of fields in history `30...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `rogrammer/14...' }expire: no message-ID in history ` soc.culture.british/146...' -- expiring }expire: wrong number of fields in history `mor/374...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `t/52 sci.energy/68 sci.physics/157...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `y/195...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `.sendmail/31...' }expire: wrong number of fields in history `onment/57...' } } -- Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin@kosman.UUCP, kevin%kosman.uucp@nrc.com ) voice: 805-984-8042 Vital Computer Systems, 5115 Beachcomber, Oxnard, CA 93035 Non-Disclaimer: my boss is me, and he stands behind everything I say.
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (03/22/91)
In article <1311@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes: >It actually seems to run okay... well, mostly .... but I'm suddenly getting >a bunch of mail from the expire program. Anybody know what it's trying to >tell me? It just looks so garbled that I dunno what it is... The history file has gotten scrambled, but good. The fix is to rebuild it, using mkhistory. If it happens repeatedly, you've got some detective work ahead of you. -- "[Some people] positively *wish* to | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology believe ill of the modern world."-R.Peto| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry